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SalaryCredit Controller
Witham / Hybrid working - 3 days office / 2 days from home
Flexible working hours
£28,000 - £34,000
Reporting to the Finance Director working as part of a finance team of 10 for a very successful and growing manufacturing company. You would be solely responsible for managing UK ledger of 500 live accounts with a monthly ledger value around £5m monthly.
- Credit checking: setting & reviewing limits based on credit assessments
- Manage the company credit insurance, ensuring credit risk is kept to a minimum
- Chasing outstanding debts by telephone, letter and email
- Pre chasing to check invoices have been authorised for payment and resolving any queries before due date it needed
- Ensuring sales ledger accounts are within their agreed credit terms
- Allocation of cash and taking payments over the phone when needed
- Monthly statement runs
- Investigating and resolving invoice queries
- Liaise with internal sales department and the customer to resolve efficiently
- Resolve day to day credit control issues and problem accounts in a timely manner, understanding how and when to escalate these
- Produce reports on aged debt
- Weekly meetings with the Financial Director to discuss aged debt
- Provide anticipated receipts analysis to assist in cash flow planning
- Escalate potential bad debts to Financial Controller
- Cover for accounts payable during holiday periods
Requirements
- Have recent experience as a Credit Controller, minimum 3-5 years
- Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with stakeholders, the team and customers
- Excellent customer service, ability to build and maintain strong business relationships with customers
- Able to confidently discuss overdue payments
- Strong work ethic
- Passionate about credit control and happy to work to targets
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
If you are interested in this vacancy please contact Sarah Chandler at CWC Recruitment Ltd.
CWC is a specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated to recruiting credit professionals. We have over 45 years of credit control and credit management recruitment experience. We are true experts within our field.
