Credit Officer - 5 Months Fixed Term
Xe, New Zealand
Job Description
At Xe, we live currencies. We share the belief that behind every currency exchange, query or transaction is a person or business trying to accomplish something important, so we work together to develop new and better currency services that put our customers first.
Xe was one of the first businesses built on the internet, having begun its life in Canada in 1993 as Xenon Laboratories. Our Universal Currency converter was launched in 1995 and it has grown into one of the most popular currency sites in the world, with over 280 million users worldwide. In 2015, Xe was purchased by Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: EEFT), and joined forces with Euronet’s HiFX brand, a leading international money transfer business, to offer Xe’s users access to reliable money transfer services as well as currency information under the Xe brand. Today, our platform is used by thousands of businesses from small-to-medium-sized enterprises, to Fortune 500 companies.
We continue to have ambitious growth plans as we work towards becoming the world’s most used, most loved and most trusted currency exchange service, helping more than a billion people around the world.
We’re proud of what we do and how we do it, but most importantly why we’re here. We empower people to know more and do better.because behind every currency exchange query or transaction is a person trying to accomplish something important.
Requirements
Reporting into the Credit Manager (APAC), the Credit Officer role is responsible for accounts payable and credit control for APAC amp; North America; managing clients and debt collection for those who fail to meet the credit terms provided to them.
What you’ll do
- Manage clients who fail to meet the credit terms provided to them.
- Review and monitor standard and non-standard margin terms
- Manage debt collection matters; liaising with external parties as appropriate.
- Credit Report
- Review margin free/batch limit/Direct Debit New applications
- Review existing Margin Free facilities (each account to be reviewed on annual basis)
- Review accounts for debt collection
- Manage accounts through debt collection and legal process
- Monitoring requests from other areas of the business through our internal CRM system
- Review clients requesting ACH increases and liaise with the relevant departments, escalating requests where necessary
- Monitoring open positions
- Contact clients regarding late settlement for full balance or security payments
- Contact clients requesting a close out to explain the process and advise of their options
- Deal with issues arising from currency conversions
- Perform trades when requested by a client or other departments
- Perform credit reviews of corporate clients in line with credit policies
- Ensure corporate clients are in line with any agreed credit facility and call for collateral when their credit line has been exceeded
- Make decisions to write off debtor balances where collection is unlikely in line with policy
- Prepare and distribute the necessary MI
- Liaise with Dealers regarding any credit policy breaches
Accounts Payable
- Process invoices
- Process affiliate statements
- Remove payment blocks
- Set up new suppliers
- Check DIM accounts
Who you are
- Demonstrable experience in a similar Credit Controller role.
- Capable in Microsoft office suite Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Experience using general market accounting and/or credit management software.
- Confident communicator; clear and professional phone and email manner.
- Proactive, positive; able to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Able to multi-task and prioritise workload.
- Strong attention to detail.
Benefits
- Competitive market-based salary;
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Contributory KiwiSaver
- Medical
- Additional day of annual leave per year of service (capped at 25 days)
- Discount gym membership
- Opportunity to be a part of the Euronet Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) and;
- Flexible working.