Job Description
Role Purpose
- This role is responsible for ensuring effective strategies are put in place to ensure optimal collection activities.
- Also, that adequate measures are put in place to guard against commercial losses and detect potential revenue leakages/irregularities.
Responsibilities
- Plan, allocated, coordinate and monitored revenue collection and Billing across the business.
- Develop and implement creative and innovative strategies that ensure revenue billing and collection targets are met.
- Deploy and maintain a sustainable platform and mechanism that supports monthly billing inputs and ensures accurate and effective billing.
- Introduce quantifiable revenue/ collection monitoring mechanisms around the business.
- Identify areas with high financial leakages and design appropriate strategies to enhance billing and collection operations – minimizing commercial losses.
- Set and meet agreed revenue protection targets and goals while maximizing cash collection and developing intelligence that will enhance theft detection.
- Ensure that the right value of the energy delivered to the company is recovered in line with the MYTO and Company set targets
- Work with relevant department to develop revenue protection processes and procedures to guard against potential commercial losses.
- Carry out periodic Quality Assurance (QA) on revenue protection processes and recommend improvement opportunities.
- Constantly reviews the Company’s revenue vis-à-vis energy supplied to Bu’s.
- Prepare periodic reports on potential process gaps (revenue leakages) and improvement opportunities.
- Prepare performance report for other commercial units.
- Deploy Mechanism and process to ensure that customer tariffs and corresponding sales are accurate at all times.
- Ensure that the appropriate customer records are generated, metered correctly and appear correctly on end customer billing/metering platform.
- Act as a Revenue Assurance Subject Matter Expert on projects / initiatives that could impact the end to end billing architecture or existing RA controls.
- Perform regular reconciliation and analysis of revenue streams. Documenting revenue flows across business units, feeders, DTs and monitors the same.
- Manage any issue that potentially impacts revenues, from identification through to quantification through to resolution.
- Ensurethat new tools are in line with expectations. Work closely with the UAT team to help development test plans.
- Develop an understanding of internal and external customer needs and ensure all activities and excellent delivery of customer satisfaction.
- Provide commercial data across IT, Technical, Finance and any other relevant department.
- Measure and track KPIs and outcomes against standards, while planning and taking corrective action where required.
- Establish and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Carry out any other duties as requested by the Head of Department or other members of the executive management team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines - Accountancy, Banking & Finance or other numerate discipline
- At least 10 years relevant work experience, from related sector/ organization with demonstrable understanding of credit / debt management.
Technical Competencies:
- Revenue Assurance
- Business Intelligence
- Management Information Systems
- Data Gathering & Analysis
- Energy Loss Reduction Techniques Management.
- Behavioral Competencies:
- Communication and Interpersonal Relations
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Managing Resources
- Business Focus.
Responsibilities
- Monitors and supervises RCG Managers
- Manages gangs composition for effective coverage
- Ensures electronic tracking of RCG gang activities/productivity
- Ensures prompt deployment of tasks on the CDMS app
- Tender periodic reports to COO/Executive Management on RCG performance
Qualifications and Experience
- B.Sc / HND in Marketing, Business Management, Social Sciences, Engineering, etc.
- Minimum of 10 years’ marketing/commercial work experience.
- Experience in the power sector, although not a prerequisite, may be an advantage.
- Professional qualification in marketing, management, etc., will also be an advantage.
- Understanding of business management, strategies, and operations.
- Decision-making and teamwork skills.
- Experience in managing service delivery.
- Experience in people management.
- Highly motivated and entrepreneurial professional.
- Analytical skill
- Ability to lead and drive performance
- Result-driven
- Generic Skills / Abilities:
- Supervisory/leadership skills.
- Decision-making and prioritization skills.
- Negotiation & conflict handling.
- Analysis & problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multi-task.