Job particulars
- Job title
- Credit Control & Finance Systems Analyst
- Hiring organisation
- Employer not disclosed
- Vacancy source
- Corporate Staffing Services Kenya
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- Finance
- Level
- Middle
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Salary
- KES 100,000 – 100,000 / month
- Posted
- 2 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 8 Oct 2026
Key responsibilities
- Credit Control & Collections:.
- Follow up actively and promptly on collections with the sales team, key accounts and directly with clients.
- Maintain the debt to sales ratio at or below 25% across all On-trade and Off-trade business categories.
- Obtain sufficient information to assess the creditworthiness of new and existing customers and recommend credit limits and terms.
- Maintain complete and correct customer records, including duly signed credit facility agreements, bank guarantees and updated contracts.
- Handle disputed accounts and negotiate to bring payments back in line with agreed terms.
- Undertake complex reconciliations and compile documentation to support legal action where required.
- Authorise and approve loadings to the sales team based on approved outstanding debt status.
- Liaise with the Finance Manager to place overdue accounts on stop supply and, where necessary, instigate recovery proceedings.
- Protect the company’s interests at creditors’ meetings relating to insolvent customers.
- Negotiate with clients and third parties on credit information, credit insurance and debt collection services.
- Confirm PODs daily and maintain complete filing of all documentation relating to credit sales.
- Data Capture & Integrity:.
- Capture and maintain receivables, collections and customer data accurately and on time in Sage and in supporting Excel workbooks.
- Maintain a clean, well-structured customer and debtors database, free of duplicates, orphan records and inconsistent naming.
- Reconcile data between Sage, bank and M-Pesa statements, and sales records, and investigate variances to source.
- Design and enforce simple data entry standards and templates so that data is captured once, correctly, and can be reused.
- Act as custodian of the integrity of the receivables data used for management reporting.
- Reporting & Analysis:.
- Produce accounts receivable outstanding and collection reports by the 2nd day of the following month.
- Prepare reconciled debtors statements by the 2nd day of the following month and circulate debtors statements monthly.
- Coordinate quarterly debtors circularization for debt confirmation.
- Build and maintain ageing analyses, DSO tracking, collection performance dashboards and customer risk categorization by investment level and risk.
- Turn receivables data into insight for management: which customers, channels and regions are slowing cash collection, and why.
- Support the wider finance team with ad hoc analysis, data extracts and modelling as required.
- Efficiency & Process Improvement:.
- Identify manual, repetitive finance processes and redesign them using better Excel structure, formulas and automation.
- Build and maintain reusable Excel tools: linked workbooks, dynamic formulas, pivot-based reporting, Power Query data refreshes and dashboards.
- Reduce report preparation time by replacing manual re-keying with automated, refreshable pulls from Sage.
- Improve departmental processes and procedures, including invoicing, follow-up and query management.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
- CPA (K) or actively progressing through the CPA/ACCA qualification.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in credit control, receivables or a finance analyst role, preferably in FMCG or distribution.
- A professional certification in data analytics, advanced Excel, Power BI or Sage is an added advantage.
- Technical Skills:
- Advanced Excel is essential. The role holder must be able to demonstrate practical command of:.
- Lookup and reference formulas (XLOOKUP / INDEX-MATCH), SUMIFS, COUNTIFS and nested logical functions.
- PivotTables, slicers and structured tables for recurring reporting.
- Power Query for cleaning, combining and refreshing data from multiple sources.
- Dynamic arrays, data validation and dashboard building.
- Macros / VBA or Power Automate are an added advantage.
- Hands-on experience with Sage is essential, including:.
- Accounts receivable and customer master data maintenance.
- Extracting, customising and scheduling reports, and exporting clean data to Excel.
- Sage Intelligence Reporting, or a comparable report writer, is an added advantageExperience of a Sage implementation, upgrade or data migration is an added advantage.
- Comfort with Power BI or a similar visualisation tool; exposure to SQL or Python is an added advantage.
- Sound understanding of receivables, reconciliations, credit risk assessment and the FMCG trade credit environment.
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