Senior Credit Analyst

Senior Credit Analyst

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Senior Credit Analyst has overall accountability to identify, lead and coordinate strategic activities for receivables and risk management in South Africa region.

In addition, he/she monitors collections management priorities and actions, acts as a point of escalation, monitors compliance to established procedures and is a driver of process improvement initiative.

In your Senior Credit Analyst role you will have a chance to open your mind into new innovative opportunities, creative ways of working and you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. This role is offered as a hybrid position for Fixed Term Contract with an End Date in Feb 2027

Key Responsibilities: 


* Recommendation & decision making on account blocks (in agreement with sales)


* Existing/New customer credit risk assessment and provide recommendations regarding financial conditions (credit facility/payment terms)


* Management of bad debt portfolio, providing bad debt proposals and provisions, follow up on legal cases


* Managing payment terms setup and changing the existing ones


* Leading Receivables/Days Sales Outstanding forecast & coordination of action plan in order to reduce a high impact to cash conversion cycle


* Monitoring priorities for Collections activities, taking proper actions and next steps based on the contain of the list 


* Complete general aging reports and coordinate next actions to be done by collections team 


* GL to AR reconciliation


* Coordination of month end close activities


* Goodwill/write off proposal for aged/non recoverable debt


* Prepare for and present Trade Receivables in quarterly Balance Sheet reviews


* Communication with business units, Days sales outstanding/Receivables updates

Required Qualification


* Proven experience in credit control/ cash collections or as a risk analyst overall understating


* Degree, ideally related to accounting and finance (asset)


* You possess proven decision making & influencing ski...