Receivable Accountant – Finance Team

About the role

Knauf Gypsum Tanzania Limited is looking for a Receivable Accountant to join its Finance & Controlling team at the Dar es Salaam headquarters. The role will own the end‑to‑end Order‑to‑Cash process, ensuring accurate billing, collections and credit‑risk oversight while supporting month‑end close and IFRS 9 provisioning.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the full Order‑to‑Cash cycle in partnership with Sales, Customer Service, Logistics and Finance.
• Ensure accurate and timely customer billing, invoice processing, credit‑note issuance and cut‑off controls.
• Maintain customer master data, set credit limits and conduct periodic credit reviews.
• Drive collection of overdue balances through regular debtor follow‑up and structured action plans.
• Perform customer account reconciliations and resolve disputes, deductions and long‑outstanding items.
• Prepare and analyse receivables ageing and AR KPIs such as DSO, overdue percentage and collection effectiveness.
• Maintain the IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss assessment (provisioning for doubtful debts).
• Support preparation and submission of monthly VAT and WHT reports to the TRA portal.
• Participate in month‑end closing and execute balance‑sheet account reconciliations.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related field.
• Professional qualification such as CPA (T) or ACCA.
• Prior experience in audit firms or in accounts‑receivable, general accounting or finance operations.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical mindset and effective communication skills.

Required skills

• SAP
• Microsoft Excel