Billing & Receivables Coordinator at Nova Pioneer

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

As Billing & Receivables Coordinator, you are responsible for executing effective and efficient financial operations and accounting functions relating to revenue and billing. The Billing & Receivables Coordinator reports to the Global Billing & Receivables Associate Manager.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Billing and receipts
  • Generate accurate annual, termly monthly tuition and other fees invoices for all revenue streams
  • Issuing of credit notes
  • Ensure generation of customer receipts and provision of receipts to customers on a daily basis
  • Escalation and resolution of any missing receipts with relevant colleagues 
  • Resolving of receipts with missing billing with relevant colleagues
• Reconciliations and general ledger management
  • Perform daily reconciliation and allocation of all receipts from the previous day across all campuses
  • Perform reconciliations of individual student accounts
  • Perform bank reconciliations
  • Perform general ledger entries related to billing, receipts, bad debts and bad debt provisions 
• Bookkeeping
  • Cross-skilling with associate accounting team members to assist with broader finance functions including reconciliations and general ledger activities
  • Contribute to the month-end and year-end reporting and audit processes
• Reporting
  • Producing monthly debtors age analysis, bad debts, bad debt provision and associated reports analysing the billing of Nova Pioneer versus collections
  • Produce reports at a detailed level explaining variances between budgeted and actual revenue, collections and bad debts
  • Track and update required databases and dashboards
• Budgeting
  • Assist in preparing annual and revised revenue budgets 
• Business control environment
  • Recommend & implement internal controls across areas of responsibility to ensure accuracy and timely delivery of responsibilities
• General
  • Contribute to the ongoing improvement of Nova Pioneer by suggesting and implementing measures that increase productivity, reduce costs and raise customer service levels
  • Maintain effective and productive working relationship with the collections department and contribute to activities to improve interaction and collaboration with the collections department
  • Achieve and maintain proficiency with system and tools required to perform duties 
  • Other duties as assigned by the billing team leader which may include (but not limited to) assisting with collections and parent gating during peak times.

ABOUT YOU:

Skills and Qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in finance or commerce preferable
• At least 2 years experience in a finance, audit or similar role preferable
• Highly motivated self-starter with bias for action and teamwork, comfortable working in a startup environment
• Outstanding organization, project-management, problem-solving, and communication skills
• You have a passion for education and Nova Pioneer's vision of transforming schooling across the African continent