Accounts Receivable/Credit Control (Accounting)

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE OFFICER
We are looking for an Accounts Receivable officer to join our team in Cairns. The primary purpose of this role is to manage our customers accounts ensuring prompt and accurate reconciliations as well as processing and allocating customer payments.

What you will doing:

• With the assistance of the Credit Controller, assess Credit worthiness of new Business Customers applications within authority levels and in line with Sea Swift’s Credit Assessment, Policy & Procedure Manual.
• Create new customer accounts 
• Respond to referee report requests on our debtors.
• Process EFT, cash, cheque and credit card receipts to debtor accounts and clearing accounts from Bank Statement.
• Banking all monies that are received at SS Depots
• Reconciliation of internal accounts
• Process phone credit card payments through Bpoint or available Eftpos terminals.
• With direction from the Credit Controller, monitor the ageing of debtors and take action to collect debts outside of our trading terms as per Sea Swifts Accounts Receivable Policy & Procedure Manual.
• In conjunction with the Credit Controller, ensure accounts that are well beyond our trading terms are placed on stop credit and monitored as per Sea Swifts Accounts Receivable Policy & Procedure Manual.
• Prepare management reports on ageing and other accounts receivable reports on a regular basis.
• Run weekly credit card runs, fortnightly direct debit runs and follow up on declined transactions.
• Prepare and distribute monthly AR statements to customers.
• Investigating and resolving account enquiries.
• Liaise with Sales and Customer Service on account issues.
• Assist with end-of-month tasks and duties to meet reporting deadlines and compliance requirements.

What is required for the role:

• Knowledge of Accounting Principles and Practices
• High level Microsoft Office skills
• SAP B1 experience desirable
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and prioritise tasks in a high volume, fast paced environment
• Good communication skills
• High level administration skills and attention to detail
• Understanding of Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental principles

About us:
Sea Swift is Northern Australia’s largest shipping company, with an extensive marine transport network ensuring that the world is at our customers’ doorstep.

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Sea Swift has a zero tolerance to drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
All new employees will be required to undergo a drug and alcohol and pre-employment screening.

Sea Swift is an equal opportunity employer.

Your application will include the following questions:

Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?

With our long, far-reaching experience and our wide spread of services, Sea Swift is the regional pace setter in the marine transport industry. But it’s also our attitude that sets us apart. We know solutions are more important than questions, and that the best approach is the kind of resourceful diligence which simply gets the job done.

Can-do

Efficiency, reliability, and an in-built spirit of can-do helpfulness are among the most valuable attributes we can offer our customers. To help nurture relationships, we measure our performance – and the bar is set at challenging heights.

At your service

Sea Swift’s fleet of purpose-designed vessels delivers vital supplies and services to remote coastal and island communities and resource development sites. In providing these services, our guiding principles are safety and security. Nothing is more important to us than the wellbeing of people, and the integrity of the goods and equipment with which we are entrusted.

CertificationHACCP System Certified

Quality and Safety standards compliance

Sea Swift strives for a sustainably safe, productive and healthy workplace, operating a fully integrated, environmentally compatible quality management system that complies with the following standards:

AS/NZS 4810

ISO 14001 and 9001

Sea Swift is also HACCP accredited.

It’s what we do

With our long, far-reaching experience and our wide spread of services, Sea Swift is the regional pace setter in the marine transport industry. But it’s also our attitude that sets us apart. We know solutions are more important than questions, and that the best approach is the kind of resourceful diligence which simply gets the job done.

Can-do

Efficiency, reliability, and an in-built spirit of can-do helpfulness are among the most valuable attributes we can offer our customers. To help nurture relationships, we measure our performance – and the bar is set at challenging heights.

At your service

Sea Swift’s fleet of purpose-designed vessels delivers vital supplies and services to remote coastal and island communities and resource development sites. In providing these services, our guiding principles are safety and security. Nothing is more important to us than the wellbeing of people, and the integrity of the goods and equipment with which we are entrusted.

CertificationHACCP System Certified

Quality and Safety standards compliance

Sea Swift strives for a sustainably safe, productive and healthy workplace, operating a fully integrated, environmentally compatible quality management system that complies with the following standards:

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