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Credit Controller

CWC Recruitment Ltd
Posted 13 hours ago, valid for 4 days
Location

Chelmsford, Essex CM3 4SX, England

Salary

£25,000 - £30,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for a Credit Controller in Chelmsford, offering a salary between £30,000 and £37,000.
  • The role involves managing a ledger of approximately 300 live accounts and requires experience in credit control, preferably within the construction industry.
  • Responsibilities include chasing customers for payments, maintaining relationships with various stakeholders, and ensuring timely debt collection.
  • Candidates should be highly organized, assertive, and flexible, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to adapt to business needs.
  • Experience in credit control is essential, and the role is part of a finance team reporting to the Financial Controller.

Credit Controller

Chelmsford

£30,000 - £37,000

Working for a well establishing and growing commercial business that predominately suppliers the construction / house building industry. You will be part of a finance team of 8, reporting to the Financial Controller.

  • Manage and reporting on the Group credit control
  • Management of a ledger has approx. 300 live accounts + a small retention ledger
  • Chasing customers to ensure prompt payment of outstanding invoices
  • Build and maintain good working relationships with customers (large corporate businesses), external bankers, credit providers, surveyors and project managers
  • Ensuring applications are raised correctly ensuring outstanding debts can be paid on time
  • Liaising internally to facilitate debt collection
  • Allocate all monies received on Sage 50
  • Process daily debtor uploads to third party factor facility
  • Management of bad and doubtful debts
  • Maintain promised monies reporting, regularly update directors and managers.
  • Reviewing customer credit limits and adverse credit reports
  • Monthly aged debtor reporting
  • Implementing new procedures to improve inefficiencies
  • Account reconciliations as needed

Requirements

  • Experience of Credit Control within the construction industry is preferred but not essential
  • Ideally knowledge of applications and retentions. Salary is dependent on the industry background experience
  • Highly organised and professional in approach with a keen eye for detail
  • Assertive and proactive in thinking and approach
  • Robust, committed and commercially minded
  • Flexible and able to adapt to the needs of the business
  • Ability to build relationships internally with surveyors and project managers

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.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.