EMEA Credit Controller
£32,000 - £35,000
Permanent
City of London (Hybrid Working)
Halliday Marx have partnered with a large International Consultancy to recruit an EMEA Credit Controller.
Working as part of the EMEA Team, you will be responsible for a number of portfolios across the EMEA region ensuring credit issues are flagged, ageing debt and provisions are reviewed and managed and provide expert collections guidance and support.
Key Duties will include, but not be limited too:
- Assist the EMEA Credit Control Team Leads on a day to day basis.
- Assist Client Partners with collection of outstanding invoices including reviews/meetings, reporting, and chasing of debt.
- Specific management of EMEA wide client accounts / countries which need assistance.
- Prepare the quarterly review of country commentary of all invoices over 180 days as part of SOX control, and assigning appropriate bad debt provisions at invoice level.
- Post cash accurately and in a timely manner for the region including intercompany payments.
- Liaising closely with Billing & Accounts Payable to actively resolve queries and escalate issues as and when appropriate.
- Actively resolving all credit balances/unassigned cash within the region and documenting in line with legal requirements (seeking assistance from Manager as required).
- Assisting in the Month End close process from an AR perspective.
- Where circumstances dictate, working with our legal team on collection matters.
- Identifying (escalating where necessary) all bad debt write offs for Manager.
- Other adhoc tasks, as needed.
Requirements and Desired Experience:
- Professional and confident manner.
- At least two years relevant work experience in a similar role within a professional fast based environment.
- Good communicator and comfortable talking to many different people at all levels in the organisation and clients.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Committed, bright, numerate and enthusiastic.
- Team player who thrives in a multi-tasking, deadline driven environment.
- Working knowledge of SAP (would be advantageous, but not essential) or other large enterprise wide accounting systems.
- Fluent in English and a second language would be beneficial.