Linda Seakgela

Work History

TransUnion

- 04.2025

Enforcing compliance with financial and management accounting controls and principles
Applying the correct accounting treatment as appropriate
Review and management of AR balances, ageing thereof and collections of posted invoices
Reconciliation of customer accounts and ensuring collections have been applied correctly
Be able to calculate the outstanding days and use the information to drive collections
Preparation for month end/quarter end/yearend
Analysing and providing the bad debts provision
Ad-hoc requests
Assist with / preparation for internal and statutory audits
Management of business units/verticals
Management of the preparation and adherence to all SLAs for tickets and exceptions raised
Ensure the accounting records correctly reflect the results of business units’ financial position
Identification and investigation of potential inefficiencies and risks encountered by the business
Work with customers, business units and Sales AEs to ensure that we are proactively collecting from customers
Manage internal and external queries to ensure they are addressed timeously to the expected level of detail and accuracy
Minimal if any direct supervision and/or negotiation to accomplish the objectives of the communications
Key Customer analysis and reporting
Implementation of month end close calendar and related

Sasol SA

07.2019 - 04.2024

Perform detailed financial analysis on customer financial statements to analyze results in establishing credit limits
Prepare quality credit motivation on credit limits above DOA
To ensure securities are valid and legally enforceable
Review debtors accounts annually
Support account managers and maintain good relationships
Ensuring compliance/corporate governance
To review and comply/adhere to Credit Management policies and procedures with specific emphasis on credit risk to maximize sales and profitability and to minimize bad debts
Identify and monitor potential bad debts
Support credit control in negotiating overdue debts
Proactive management of potential credit risk
Added Responsibilities: Monthly report
Compiling the debtor watch list report
Updating the guarantee register
Banking SOX report
Provision for bad debt report
Expiring credit insurance and securities report
Credit facility changes SOX report

Sasol SA

12.2015 - 06.2019

Debtor’s book management
Ensure monthly reconciliations by client are completed accurately within the given timeline with the necessary back-up documentation
Daily contacts with customers on outstanding and overdue payments
Weekly cash flow forecast
Ensure held orders are released in line with client specifications.
Bad debt provision
Processing credits in line with company policy
Ensure that unallocated cash on debtor’s accounts are cleared monthly to minimize / alleviate cash on both debtors and in the bank.
Ensure the statement and other documents are sent timeously.
Added Responsibilities
Second in charge to the Credit Supervisor from June 2016-June 2019
Weekly overdue reports
Monthly overdue reports
Monitor dispute and query resolution