Role Purpose

Zain Iraq is actively recruiting to hire a Bad Debt Collection Accountant who are responsible for ensuring that financial transactions are carried out and recorded in an accurate and timely manner. They are also responsible to produce financial reports and analysis to determine the cost of debt collecting and sorting the accounts.

Responsibilities

• Understand Accounting strategy and plans and participate in the achievement of objectives and targets.

• Follow up with clients on outstanding balance to ensure timely and accurate payments.

• Produce regular routine reports using financial reporting systems as required.

• Produce simple ad hoc reports for management as required, using manual or computerised records.

• Analyse standard reports to identify variances and recommend solutions.

• Gather information for use in research and analysis to assist the unit to provide advice and assistance to internal and external customers.

• Develop own professional expertise through the optimization of involvement in new and different work and attendance of training.

• Analyzing accounts and dividing them into groups based on a specialized system in terms of importance and level of collection, exporting reports and working based on these reports.

• Evaluating bad debts, sorting out the accounts, and finding solutions which helps collecting dues or referring it to the judiciary.

• Exporting weekly and monthly reports for the accounts that are working on within the monthly plan, the expected collection rate, and the actual collection.

• Follow-up of the accounts that refrain paying and transfer these accounts to the supervisor of the department in order to transferring them to the legal department.

• Do the visits to bad debt customers to enforce them to pay their dues.

Education, Experience and Competencies

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance-related field Law or equivalent

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience with at least 1 year in a similar role

Competencies

Behavioral

• Achievement Driven

• Integrity

• Teamwork

• Information Seeking

• Problem Solving and Creativity

• Relationship Building

• Initiative

Technical

• Financial Management

• Oral & Written Communication

• Communication

• Managing Information

• Technology Application

IDE Competency

• Courage to Engage

• Addressing Bias

• Allyship