Collections & Inventory Accountant

About the role

We are seeking a Collections & Inventory Accountant to join our Finance team. The role combines responsibility for managing customer receivables and overseeing inventory accounting, ensuring accurate financial records and timely collections.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and follow up on customer outstanding balances, due and overdue payments.
• Maintain an updated collection plan and monitor expected payment dates.
• Contact customers via calls, emails, and visits as needed.
• Prepare and regularly update AR Aging Reports and flag long‑outstanding balances.
• Review, reconcile and issue customer statements of account.
• Record and allocate customer payments to the correct invoices and accounts.
• Handle partial payments, advance payments, credit balances and unsettled amounts.
• Track cheques, bank transfers and other collection methods, including returned or replaced cheques.
• Resolve missing documents, disputed invoices or other collection issues in coordination with relevant departments.
• Coordinate closely with Sales and Finance teams on collection status and customer accounts.
• Maintain a collection tracker covering outstanding amounts, due dates, expected collection dates and latest actions.
• Produce collection reports and forecasts, monitor actual versus planned collections and support month‑end reconciliation of customer balances.
• Review and monitor inventory receipts, issues, transfers and adjustments ensuring accurate recording.
• Reconcile physical inventory with system balances and investigate discrepancies.
• Participate in periodic and annual physical stock counts.
• Coordinate with Warehouse and Purchasing on missing or incorrect inventory transactions.
• Review inventory quantities and cost values, assisting in correcting valuations.
• Prepare inventory reconciliation and stock reports.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Minimum three years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in collections and accounts receivable.
• Proven hands‑on experience in inventory accounting and stock reconciliation.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial documentation cycles.

Required skills

• Accounting Principles
• Inventory Accounting
• AR Aging Reports
• Physical Stock Counts
• Financial Documentation Cycles
• Stock Reconciliation
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Inventory Reconciliation
• Collections