Credit Controller

Radley Green has partnered with a PE-backed Media Events business that is looking to bring its Credit Control function in-house. As a result, they are seeking a skilled Credit Controller to join their growing team.

The company has demonstrated significant growth over the past four years, with 70% of their clients being repeat customers. They require a tenacious and diplomatic individual to effectively manage outstanding invoices.

The Credit Controller will handle various duties related to cash management and Credit Control within the Billing and Accounts Receivable team, including:

• Managing a portfolio of accounts to ensure timely cash collection
• Maintaining and strengthening relationships with both internal and external customers.
• Supporting the Cash Collections Team Leader and providing necessary reports in line with Credit Control requirements.
• Achieving targeted DSO and cash collection goals, keeping debts to a minimum while managing a high-value, high-volume portfolio across different payer groups.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cash posting, with end-of-day reconciliation completed.
• Providing aged debtor reports to the Head of Service, including DSO.
• Building and maintaining key relationships with all major stakeholders, including sponsors and companies.
• Ensuring accurate accounts receivable data maintenance for the assigned portfolio.
• Monitoring and identifying unidentified cash for relevant payers.
• Meeting cash collection targets to ensure accounts are paying on terms and achieving DSO, aged debt, and bad debt provision targets set by senior management
• Minimizing unallocated cash levels
• Reducing the number of accounts reaching bad debt status or aging beyond 90 days.
• Performing daily reconciliation of cash receipts and posting.
• Timely production of account statements to facilitate smooth delivery of account balance information.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is adept at managing complex financial processes while maintaining strong customer relationships.