Billing Clerk

Finance

Position Title

Billing Clerk

Business Unit

Dry Port of Duhok

Applicants

Internal

Department

Finance

Location

Seje, Duhok

Job Type

Full Time

Posting Date

2024-04-04

Closing Date

2024-04-14

Salary

Disclosed on the second interview

About the Company

DP Duhok is the first dry port in Iraq, working with international and local bodies to ease logistics issues in the region. Anticipate, develop, and sustain – ensuring a valuable influence on the region’s economy, by assisting in the development of the local industry, attracting foreign and domestic cargos to the intermodal terminal, and to encourage international and national investment within the country of Iraq.

Job Purpose

The Billing Clerk position is accountable for creating invoices and credit memos, issuing them to customers by all necessary means, and updating customer files. 

The position reports directly to the Billing Team Leader. Indirectly to Billing Supervisor and Accounting Senior Supervisors.

Key Accountabilities

This position calls for an individual who possesses the following accountabilities:

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • High degree of numeracy.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Able to work independently.
  • Ability to organize your own work and that of others.
  • Strong team Player.
  • Able to keep confidential information.
  • Concentration, rigor, availability, interpersonal skills, speed, and punctuality.

Job Context

  • Collect the information required for all calculations.
  • Calculates the invoice for the provided products and services against the consignee.
  • Check the data input in the accounting system to ensure accuracy of the final bill.
  • Reconciliation between total invoice amount and bank deposit slip.
  • Issue daily reports to higher authorities.
  • Preparation of quotations when required.
  • Answer customers’ queries and address their complaints and concerns to superiors.
  • Undertake cash collection in the absence of the bank.
  • Contacts Service Center and Customers to obtain, verify, and update account information when necessary
  • Documentation of invoices and related supporting documents with the necessary signatures.
  • Maintain paper and electronic records for various accounts along with the supporting documentation;
  • ensure that data is accurate.
  • Draft invoice statements for customers.
  • Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

  • Proven experience as billing clerk or general accounting experience.
  • Write English fluently, medium level in speaking will be enough.
  • A university degree in Finance or Accounting is a plus.
  • Outlook knowledge.
  • Proficient MS office (Word, Excel, Access).
  • Proficient in billing and collections procedures, and in office work