
Finance Officer – Account Receivables
Company: Qatar Airways Sector: Accounting, Finance & Banking SaveAbout the job
Job Purpose:
Responsible for Cargo Revenue Accounting, Stock Controller and Cargo Accounts Receivables of Doha Sales. Handles the Accounts Receivables for Doha Sales by supervising two teams – one that raises invoices to customers and another that collects respective debts. Interacts with government officials and high-profile customers.
Operational:
- Manage monthly AR closing process including reconciliation of the AR customer accounts.
- Prepare Monthly AR activity and tie-back to the AR Aging.
- Prepare AR Year End Schedules used for external reporting.
- Prevent receivables from exceeding 30 days for all parties except. If exceeded, a report is required to be submitted to Management within.
- Highlight immediately debts that are in doubt to higher management.
- Ensure due collections to the company are handled in a timely manner and conduct credit checks on all customers while maintaining detailed accounts analysis by party,
- Establish and manage credit limits and monitor and report to management any deviations from the credit standards.
- Provide proper Credit assessment to create a customer profile on oracle.
- Responsible for the correspondences with financial institution related to opening of new accounts, currencies and company authorized signatories.
- Ensure bank statements, reports and formats are available for accounting reference for all finance subs staff.
- Follow up daily with our customers for debt collection and accounts reconciliation.
- Reconcile the accounts receivables and issue statements of account for the customers in coordination with the debt collector. That should include but is not limited to:
- Attending all the queries of the customers regarding their accounts as well as QR staff regarding fares, debtors.
- Calling the customer and asking for QR payments as well as solving all problems)
- Raising debtor’s follow-up letters in Arabic/English for Government and all AR customers.
- Customers visits
- Checking the Aging report on daily basis
- Checking all customer statements which is over due date
- Preparing monthly report for all the customers Aging
- Preparing a collection report on daily basis and accumulating in a monthly report
- Building up an excellent rapport with customers.
- Issue receipts for cheques or cash received
- Managing the daily visits report for all debt collectors
- Crosschecking daily bank statement and make sure that receipts booked it in Oracle system.
- Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department.
- Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the
Qualifications
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounts / equivalent with minimum 5-7 yrs of experience in Sales to cash, Account receivables, General Ledger, Chart of accounts
- Should have 2-3 yrs of experience in aviation / travel / hospitality domain.
- Should have good Arabic verbal and written communication skills.
- High level of Accuracy and Attention to details.
- Strong analytical and accounting skills
- Proficient in MS Excel and good in MS Office in general
- Very good command of English language
- Must be able to effectively handle multiple tasks simultaneously before deadline
- Ability to train and develop subordinate’s skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.