Fund Accountant

About the role
Duties will include identifying prospective customers, following up on potential sales leads and maintaining relationships with new customers effective and efficient on a day-to-day operation. Provide or create marketing strategies designed for a target market.

Responsibilities

• Communicating with customers on a professional and high level.
• Making outbound calls to potential customers, current and development on new leads.
• Source new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls and emails.
• Creating and maintaining customer database.
• Understanding customer needs and making sure we can meet their deliveries from all angles.
• Explaining product features, benefits, sell products and services (training will be given).
• Closing sales and achieving quotas.
• Aim for internal target growth.
• Research our current products and new marketings.
• Discuss pipeline business with sales team.
• Manage a clients projects and accounts from beginning to end.
• Forecasting and planning monthly for commodities based on customers needs, and new projects thats being worked on.
• Coordinate with sales or support team in Jhb, so that the customers expectations are met.
• Product or business development within the business for strategic planning.
• Overall responsibility for financial matters including budgets and sales targets on a yearly basis.
• Reporting (content and format as agreed) weekly, and Month End Reports.
• Adhere to all organization policies and procedures.
• Maintain accurate commercial records and place under one drive.

Requirements

• South African Unemployed youth between the ages of 18 and 34.
• Must not have participated on the programme before.
• National Senior Certificate / Matric / Grade 12 Certificate (Completed)
• Minimum of 2-5 years experience in a sales position.
• Sales or Telesales experience is required.
• Experienced in the handling of customers (Customer collaboration).
• Computer literate (Knowledge of Syspro or related packages and Basic PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel skills )
• Language - English fluency in speech and literacy
• Knowledge of the chemical industry. (Training will be given)
• The ability to cope with a diversity of tasks in a high pressure environment.
• Excellent communicator with a strong sense for urgency.
• High achievement orientation.
• Excellent people skills.
• Concern for order, quality, and accuracy.
• High customer service orientation.
• Excellent telephone skills.
• Good admin skills.
• Team player.
• Must have a license to equip them to move into external sales.

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