Credit Analyst at Bayer Tanzania

Role Purpose:

• This role is responsible to credit management and customer financing for Tanzania under Southern Africa Countries.
• The role is responsible for ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, driving collections for accounts receivable, and providing support to commercial operations in the region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive credit risk management through credit limit analysis and governance.
• Support the collection activities to enable the achievement of business and financial goals including maximizing sales growth and profitability, and achievement of cash flow targets.
• Educate the sales organization on the credit policies and procedures and ensure compliance in the daily sales process.
• Ensure the implementation of credit management processes and controls in the requisite automated systems to enable continuous monitoring, assessment, and revision of customers credit profiles.
• Support budgeting and forecasting activities and provide adhoc and periodical reports to aid financial reporting, quarterly exposure reviews, and business decision making.
• Trigger recovery actions for overdue accounts in collaboration with relevant functions.
• Act as the point of contact for the commercial and order-to-cash teams on all matters related to credit and provide the requisite support to enable efficient running of sales processes including marketing and channel related costs, and performance incentives.

Duties:

• Compliance with credit policy and legislation
• Manage all aspects of debtor control, including debtor information, credit control, collections, and general ledger entries and reporting.
• Credit vetting of new, existing accounts and orders.
• Ensure appropriate credit limit setting in SAP.
• Ensure accurate collection forecasting.
• Sending Acknowledgement of Debt (AOD) to overdue customers
• Recommending accounts for Debt recovery and/or Legal process.
• Recommend accounts to be written off.
• Order release
• Blocking of overdue accounts as per credit policy.
• Preparation of dab debt movement reports
• Preparing and sending monthly customer statements
• Investigation and reconciliation of account queries
• Facilitation of new account opening and database maintenance
• Follow-up and collection of payments.
• Monitoring customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities.
• Ensure adherence to deadlines.
• Any other duties that may be assigned by the Credit Manager SEA.

Qualifications, Skills and Competencies:

• Undergraduate degree in business or economics.
• Professional qualifications in accounting or finance- Preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in credit management.
• Strong business acumen, strategic mindset, and customer focus.
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Great judgement and decision-making skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Excellent relationship management skills.
• Conversant in English language
  

Application Period: 15 December 2025 - 23 January 2026 Reference Code: 858523

Division: Crop Science Location: Tanzania : Tanzania : Arusha

Functional Area: Controlling Position Grade: E13

Employment Type: Limited Work Time: Standard

Contact Us

Address Telephone E-Mail

Bayer Life Science Tanzania Ltd.

Themi Industrial Area

Plot No. 14

P.O BOX 2039

Arusha, Tanzania

[email protected]

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status and pregnancy. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.