Consultant: Invoicing

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

NB: This is a 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract position

Purpose of the Job: The Consultant: Invoicing is responsible to create invoices for claimants as well ensure invoices are accurate, and resolve billing errors.

Key Performance Areas

Invoicing

• Keep client information details up-to-date.
• Create and send invoices and statements to clamaints.
• Check data input to ensure the accuracy of the final bill.
• Track payments and ensure that the cash flow into the company is profitable and does not result in losses for the organisation.
• Report issues or irregularities where necessary.
• Fix billing errors by issuing debit and credit memos.
• Initiating new procedures for billing where gaps are identififed.
• Recover any outstanding debts owed to the organisation as a resut of over or double payment.
• Provide payout progress.
• Categorise received Invoices by type.
• Validate the details of supplier claim or supplier invoice.
• Validate the expert invoice and expert details.
• Conduct duplicate checks on all invoices before issueing.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that invoicing processes are implemented and maintained at the highest standards.
• Maintain the implementation of an unusual occurrence procedures

Administrative Support

• Deal with/and respond to correspondence.
• Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
• Assist with typing and editing briefs, technical papers, letters to various parties, and memos.

Reporting

• Track and report against set objectives and targets.
• Report on emerging risks.
• Provide ad hoc reports on process improvement initiatives.

Stakeholder Management

• Maintain healthy relationships with all stakeholders.
• Follow up and feedback to all stakeholders to keep them updated on the status of a query.
• Respond to queries within the predefined turnaround times.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in a Finance related qualification.

Experience

• Relevant 3 years’ experience in a invoicing or accounting related environment.

Competencies

• Behavioural
  • Planning, Organising and Coordinating
  • Personal Mastery
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Ethics and Values
  • Client Service Orientation                                                                                                                                       

• Technical
  • Knowledge of cash flow and invoicing.
  • Understanding of post claim management and settlement.
  • Medical bill reviewing.
  • Medical case management.
  • Complex problem identification, solving and decision making.
  • Customer value proposition.
  • Good financial management skills.
  • Strong Analytical capabilities.
  • Knowledge of Motor Vehicle Accident legislation.
  • PFMA knowledge.

NB: "RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs." 

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.