Linda Seakgela
Credit Management
Midrand
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Account Receivable Specialist
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
Credit Analyst
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
Credit Controller
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
Education
Skills
Financial analysis proficiency
Accounts reconciliation expertise
Credit assessment capabilities
Collections management strategies
Customer account oversight skills
Dispute resolution techniques
SLA compliance management
Financial statement review expertise
Accounts receivable systems knowledge
Payment processing efficiency techniques
Claims handling expertise in invoicing
Cross-team collaboration skills
Strong client relationship management
Cash application methods
Credit policy development
Accounts receivable
Collections
Credit management
Timeline
Credit Analyst - Sasol SA
07.2019 - 04.2024
Credit Controller - Sasol SA
12.2015 - 06.2019
Account Receivable Specialist - TransUnion
- 04.2025
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