Credit controller

The Recruitment Co. is currently recruiting for a Credit Controller for our client who is one of the UK's leading independent manufacturers of hygiene paper products at their office in Blackburn.

Contract: Temporary 3 month contract
Salary: Up to £15.38ph depending on experience
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Job Purpose: To support the credit control processes, ensuring that all payments, credit limits and associated paperwork are transacted within agreed service levels. In addition, they play an important role in the identification and resolution of discrepancies

Role Duties/ Responsibilities:

• Initial set up of new customer account through credit checks, notify customer of agreed credit limit and term in line with company policy
• Effective debt collection and maintenance of the accounts ensuring customers adhere to payment terms and credit limits
• Sales invoices and credit note generation and sending invoices and statements to customers
• Sales receipts allocation and reconciliations
• Liaising with invoice finance partner to achieve cash collection targets, providing timely and accurate information
• Preparing the paperwork for defaulting debtors and forwarding to the invoice finance partner at the end of the Collection Cycle
• Bring to the attention of Senior Management any significant risk relating to potential bad debt, bounced cheques, payment reversal
• Prepare information for senior management to review credit limits on a regular basis, evaluating and minimising possible risks
• Weekly and monthly reconciliation of trade debtors
• Production of various KPI reports any other ad hoc duties as required for Senior management
• Ensuring good working relations and timely communications will all team members and customers and resolution of any queries

Candidate Requirements:

• Proven experience working within a credit control role
• Excellent telephone manner with the ability to 'get results' whilst maintaining cordial relationships with key stakeholders
• IT literacy with superb knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of SAP Business one will be preferable
• High level of attention to detail, numerate and literate
• Excellent communication and organisation skills
• Proactive approach to achieve superb results
• Ability to work using own initiative and team player

If you feel you are the right candidate for this role then please submit your CV for immediate response.
CPSwansea