Debtors and Creditors - Luxury Hotel Pretoria East

A Luxury Hotel in Pretoria is seeking a highly accurate Debtors & Revenue Administrator

The successful candidate will manage customer billing, revenue auditing, and collection administration. Operating within strict governance frameworks and company internal controls, this role coordinates the end-to-end billing cycle.

The position validates that all function sheets, rooming lists, vouchers, and contracts are audited for accuracy prior to invoicing, while systematically monitoring advance deposits, managing collections, and administering third-party payment channels to support working capital management.

Key Performance Areas & Job Objectives

• Debtors Administration & Credit Management
• Credit Governance: Maintain up-to-date debtor profiles, credit applications, and authorized credit agreements in strict compliance with the National Credit Act and POPIA.
• Account Maintenance: Create and update debtor master data in the Property Management System (PMS) with correct classification coding, contact profiles, and authorized billing instructions.
• Collections Management: Perform daily monitoring of debtor age analyses, initiating and documenting all statements, payment reminders, phone calls, and collection emails to maintain a clear audit trail.
• Escalation & Onboarding: Coordinate vendor registration documentation for customers, facilitate the activation of accounts, manage outstanding guest ledger balances, and recommend high-risk accounts for doubtful debt write-offs or legal handover.
• Customer Billing, Invoicing & File Auditing
• File Auditing: Receive and complete full structural audits of client and function files from Reservations, Front Office, and Group & Conference departments within established timelines.
• Charge Verification: Cross-reference and reconcile final customer bills against approved function sheets, contracts, signed slips, rooming lists, and specific split-billing instructions to eliminate rate variances or unauthorized charges.
• Invoice Issuance: Prepare, verify, and distribute accurate customer invoices, statements, and supporting schedules within prescribed company service levels and contractual deadlines.
• Exception Tracking: Maintain an active tracking register of outstanding client files or missing transaction slips, communicating deficiencies directly to Department Heads for corrective action.
• Advance Deposits & Collection Administration
• Proactive Monitoring: Monitor advance deposit due dates against upcoming arrivals, accommodation bookings, conference schedules, and event contracts.
• Pipeline Collections: Proactively follow up on outstanding deposits prior to guest arrival dates and service delivery, maintaining an automated tracking register.
• Receipt Allocation: Ensure all incoming debtor payments, virtual credit card receipts, and bank transfers are accurately allocated down to the specific reservation or function account.
• Allocation Resolution: Investigate and immediately resolve unallocated receipts, short payments, or duplicate transaction entries to safeguard cash flow planning.
• Commercial Agreements & Commission Administration
• Provisioning Schedules: Prepare monthly commission provision schedules based on occupied room nights, travel agent bookings, and tour operator agreements, submitting documentation to Finance within month-end deadlines.
• Agreement Governance: Maintain a centralized register tracking commercial contract expiry dates, notice periods, and negotiated rate structures, flagging unsigned, missing, or expired agreements.
• Barter Control: Track and administer barter agreement utilization, ensuring all non-cash transactions are supported by fully executed contracts and company policy parameters.
• Claim Verification: Investigate commission discrepancies, unsupported third-party claims, or incorrect calculations with operational departments before routing for approval.
• Payment Channels, Voucher & Merchant Services Administration
• Virtual Credit Cards (VCC): Monitor, verify, and process virtual credit card transactions from online travel agents (OTAs) and travel management companies via industry booking platforms, verifying limits and collection windows.
• Voucher Management: Validate redemption conditions, value limits, and booking dates for proprietary and third-party gift vouchers within the PMS, updating external voucher platforms concurrently to prevent duplicate redemptions.
• Merchant Infrastructure: Monitor the operational health of payment terminals, log fault calls with merchant service providers, report outages, and coordinate temporary manual payment procedures across affected departments.
• Reporting, Month-End & Audit Readiness
• Distribution: Compile and distribute weekly debtor age analyses, collection tracking documents, and deposit exception summaries to management.
• Month-End Reconciliations: Complete all month-end debtor sub-ledger administrative procedures, including balance verifications and data prep for financial management reporting.
• Audit Trails: Maintain organized, audit-ready electronic and hard-copy archiving systems for all revenue, billing, and collection files to fully satisfy internal and external audit requirements.

Authority & Delegation Boundaries

Employees in this role have the authority to:

• Create, update, and maintain approved debtor accounts and contact profiles inside the property's PMS.
• Initiate collection phone calls, statements, emails, and formal payment reminders to outstanding accounts.
• Negotiate basic payment arrangements within strictly defined credit policy limits.
• Prepare customer invoices, credits, adjustments, and statements from validated billing instructions.
• Allocate received payments, OTA receipts, and virtual credit card funds to corresponding reservations.
• Issue internal non-compliance notifications to operational departments regarding missing documentation.
• Distribute standard debtor age analysis, collection metrics, deposit registers, and commission schedules.
• Log hardware and technical service requests with payment terminal and merchant service providers.

Employees in this role do NOT have the authority to:

• Approve customer credit limits or clear accounts for opening without formalized credit department sign-off.
• Approve debtor write-offs, financial refunds, or general ledger accounting adjustments and journals.
• Approve commission agreements, barter contracts, corporate negotiated rates, or discounts.
• Approve or release actual commission payments to travel management companies or third parties.
• Amend formal contract terms or adjust commercial billing conditions without executive written approval.
• Create system user profiles, modify user access rights, or alter system security configurations.
• Override established software parameters, internal financial controls, or automated approval rules.

Job Requirements & Specifications

Experience & Education:

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in debtor administration, credit control, revenue administration, or a similar finance role within the hospitality industry (Essential).
• Direct operational experience working with hospitality Property Management Systems (PMS), reservation software, and structured conference/event billing cycles (Essential).
• Experience auditing multi-department client files, complex function sheets, and travel agent contracts (Highly Advantageous).
• National Senior Certificate / Matric (Grade 12) or equivalent qualification (Essential).
• Certificate, Diploma, or Degree in Accounting, Finance, Credit Management, Debtors Control, or Business Administration (Preferred).
• Valid Driver’s Licence and own reliable transport (Desirable).

Technical Skills & System Competencies:

• High proficiency in English (both written and verbal communication), with strong customer-facing conflict resolution skills (Essential).
• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel proficiency, with the daily ability to use formulas, lookups, filtering, pivot tables, and custom reporting structures (Essential).
• Deep understanding of hotel revenue cycles across accommodation, groups, spa, and conferencing channels, alongside working knowledge of the National Credit Act and POPIA data protection guidelines.

Essential Aptitudes:

• Numerical Analysis: Interpreting debtor balances, billing information, deposit reports, commission schedules, and collection trends to identify risks and anomalies.
• Auditing Capability: Systematically reviewing contracts, function sheets, client files, and billing instructions to ensure compliance and cross-departmental accuracy.
• Verbal Analysis: Understanding and evaluating complex legal or commercial verbal data, including commission contracts, corporate rate agreements, and onboarding policies.
• Systems Aptitude: Learning and effectively utilizing hospitality PMS platforms, digital booking platforms, online tracking systems, OTA management software, and hospitality software systems.

Personal & Behavioral Attributes:

• Exceptional administrative accuracy and sharp attention to detail when verifying room charges, duplicate billing, and contractual line items.
• Self-motivated, highly organized professional capable of coordinating cross-departmental deadlines under operational pressure.
• Collaborative team player willing to work reasonable additional hours, weekends, or public holidays to meet strict month-end financial cut-offs.
• Professional discretion required to pass mandatory company occupational evaluations, including medical, psychological, and competency profiles.

Confidentiality & Data Protection

• Strategic Security: Maintain strict confidentiality of all financial information, customer account profiles, commercial agreements, corporate business strategies, and sensitive operational data.
• Information Security: Ensure that physical and electronic documents, contracts, reports, and customer records are securely filed and protected from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or removal.
• POPIA Compliance: Protect customer, supplier, and employee records in complete alignment with data privacy requirements under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
• Ethical Conduct: Refrain from any actual, perceived, or potential conflicts of interest, with an explicit obligation to immediately report suspected financial misconduct, theft, fraud, or system breaches via internal reporting lines. Confidentiality duties remain legally binding post-employment.

Pay: R18 000,00 - R24 000,00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Do you have your Own reliable transport?
• Name all the Hospitality Management Software you have worked with?
• Name all the financial operational systems you have worked with?
• Do you have working knowledge of the National Credit Act (NCA) and POPIA data protection guidelines?

Education:

• High School (matric) (Required)

Experience:

• ADVANCED EXCEL: 3 years (Required)
• multi-department hotel revenue cycles: 3 years (Required)
• HOTEL debtor administration: 3 years (Required)
• HOTEL credit control: 3 years (Required)
• HOTEL revenue management: 3 years (Required)
• Opera PMS and hospitality reservation networks: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• SA Drivers License (Preferred)

Location:

• Pretoria, Gauteng (Required)

Work Location: In person

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