Credit Control & Finance Systems Analyst

Job Title: Credit Control & Finance Systems Analyst
Reports To: Finance Manager
Industry: FMCG
Location: Nairobi
Gross: Kshs 70K  -100K
Our client is a Kenyan alcoholic beverages business built on two complementary lines.
They trade across both On-trade and Off-trade channels, serving key accounts, HORECA, general trade, stockists and wholesale customers nationally.
A business of this shape lives on the quality of its credit control and the speed and accuracy of its financial data, and this role sits at exactly that point.
Role Purpose: To manage the company's receivables and collections while driving accuracy, speed and insight in the company's financial data. The role combines day-to-day credit control with data capture, reporting automation and the continuous improvement of Excel and Sage processes, so that the finance team spends less time compiling numbers and more time acting on them.
The role holder is expected to be commercially curious, technically strong in Excel and comfortable working across systems, and to act as the finance team's first point of reference for data structure, reporting tools and process efficiency.
Responsibilities.
Credit Control & Collections:

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• 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:

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• 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:

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• 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:

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• 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.
  
• Support the improvement, configuration and better use of Sage, and participate in system upgrades, module rollouts or data migrations.
  
• Document the tools and processes built, and train colleagues so that the improvements survive beyond the role holder.
  

Governance & Support:

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• Participate in the development of the company credit policy in liaison with sales, finance and procurement management.
  
• Handle major accounts and visit customers to audit debtors positions.
  
• Provide information and schedules for internal and external audit exercises.
  
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes.
  

Any other duty assigned by management.
Qualifications & Experience:

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• 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:

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• 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 advantage
  
• Experience 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.
  

How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualifications and experience, please send your CV, quoting only the job title in the email subject (Credit Control & Finance Systems Analyst), to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before 11th September 2026
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive any communication from us within two weeks of your application, kindly consider your application unsuccessful. We appreciate your interest and thank you for applying
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