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Credit Controller

Mission 4 Recruitment Ltd
Posted 12 days ago, valid for 6 days
Location

Enfield, Greater London EN2 0BY

Salary

£45,000 - £54,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The company is seeking an experienced Credit Controller to join their finance team, requiring at least 3 years of relevant experience.
  • The role involves managing sales ledger processes, ensuring prompt collection of debts, and overseeing a part-time credit controller.
  • Candidates should possess advanced Excel skills and excellent customer service abilities, including effective communication and negotiation skills.
  • The position offers a salary of £30,000 to £35,000 per year, depending on experience.
  • The office is conveniently located near public transport, with hours of work from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm.

Credit Controller

This is a leading provider of marketing and communications in the UK. With over 30 years' experience in the direct marketing, CRM and transactional communication industries, they take great pride in providing their clients with a variety of tailored solutions and cost-effective services to improve the quality of their customer communications, streamline processes, consolidate costs and ultimately, deliver a greater return on investment.

They are looking for an experienced Credit Controller with Sales Ledger experience to join their busy finance team. The ideal person will have excellent customer service skills and be able to build relationships with clients. You must be happy to pick up the phone and talk to people. You will also have advanced Excel skills and be used to working with Formulae, V Lookup and Pivot Tables. You will also have responsibility for managing a part time credit controller.

JOB DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE:

  • Prepare and distribute cash received schedule daily
  • Allocate cash to sales ledger
  • Ensure the prompt collection of all monies owed to MBA by its customers
  • Opening new accounts and managing credit limits
  • Prepare and despatch monthly customer statements
  • Prepare monthly statistics re the sales ledger and debt recovery
  • Where appropriate take legal action against customers to recover outstanding sums
  • Export of invoices from operating system to SUN accounts
  • Raise credit notes, if appropriate, and obtain necessary authorisation prior to posting and despatch
  • Prepare ad hoc sales reports
  • Manage the invoice discounting facility, including dropping invoices and reconciliations
  • Sales ledger control a/c and bank reconciliations
  • Approval and checking of nominal ledger coding of sales invoices
  • Manage a part time credit controller
  • Chase overdue invoices by telephone, email and letter within agreed timescales
  • Maintain accurate records of all chasing activity

KEY SKILLS:

  • Good verbal and written communication
  • Effective listening skills
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Invoice Factoring
  • Good telephone manner with excellent customer skills
  • Numerate
  • Ability to analyse relevant information to make quality decisions
  • Flexible and able to cope under pressure and demonstrate a level of emotional control and resilience
  • Ability to work as a self-starter but also as part of a team
  • Attention to detail
  • Persistent and assertive
  • Good negotiation skills
  • Ability to build a rapport with customers

They are very accessible on public transport being on the main line from Liverpool Street and easily accessible from the Victoria Line too. There is limited on-site parking although there is a pay and display carpark in the vicinity.

Hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm

Company Pension scheme

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy

Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions

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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.