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The Business
Our client is an SME manufacturing business that also offer a maintenance and repair service to their customers, operating globally. Their turnover is currently at 22mil with plans for this to double in the next 3-5 years.
They are very people focussed and that is a big factor in their engagement of any new starters. They have wellbeing initiatives and offer a flexible working culture and support those with families. There are currently 9 people in their finance team which is growing.
The Credit Control Job
This Credit Control job is a temporary role with a length of a minimum of 3 months with a high possibility of this being extended following this. Covering someone who has been on long term absence, the ledger has been covered by the team but naturally, has been neglected without someone working on it daily. Your main objective will be to collect outstanding payments and bring the ledger up to date.
To give some context to the type of ledger this is, the business offers an end-to-end service to their customers including design, manufacturing, installation and an after service of maintenance and repair. As such the accounts receivable ledger has a range of customers on varying contracts in length and terms, which can make the ledger more complex. You will need to adopt a different process for the different types of customers, and ensure you take the time to understand these differences to ensure you adopt the correct approach.
You will need to keep a clear and up to date record of chasing activity by customer and escalate any accounts causing concern.
You may also support in raising sales invoices, appropriate to the relevant terms of each customer, which requires a high level of attention to detail and organisation to ensure these are sent on the appropriate dates, it will be then your responsibility to post, allocate and reconcile the receipts.
Depending on your skill set, length of contract, and return date of the current incumbent there will also be the opportunity to support on data cleansing their accountancy system to maximise the accuracy ready for a future system migration.
What is required:
- You will need to be experienced with all standard credit control duties and ideally managed your own ledger, or at least your own part end to end.
- You will need to demonstrate your adaptability to a variation of customers, and show you have initiative and commercial acumen to understand when customers may need a softer approach to maintain relationships but ensure prompt payment.
- Experience on SAGE 50 would be advantageous, along with being a competent user of excel - something the business relies heavily on whilst in the early stages of implementing a new ERP system.
Salary:
Salary is negotiable dependant on experience. Ideally circa £28,000 but with negotiation beyond for the right person to be discussed on application. This role could be worked part time on reduced hours of 30, or full time at 37.5, worked over 4-5 days. The organisation offers hybrid and flexible working. CV's will be discussed with the client on Tuesday 22nd of April with an aim for a start date of the 6th May, so please apply asap.
