Job Title: Credit Controller
Location: Aylesbury, Didcot, Wallingford, Reading
Salary: upto £32,000 + Benefits + Hybrid working, Car owner
Evolve Recruitment are seeking to recruit a proactive, self-motivated Credit Contoller with 1-4 years stable experience to join an established, dynamic company. The role will be varied and challenging; the successful candidate will be responsible for the efficient and timely collection of debtor balances across multiple ledgers. You will be expected to provide excellent customer service to both external and internal customers and adhere to the policies and guidelines set by the department within a high performance culture. Additionally, you will be required to assist with aging analysis, supporting cash flow forecasting and analysis and basic bookkeeping. A casual working environment and promotes both team and individual growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Call and e-mail customers to discuss and collect payments
- Make notes of findings in the accounting system for reference
- Review aged debt report on a daily basis to identify overdue debt
- Provide special focus on the collection of all overdue debt and problematic accounts
- Help to facilitate the resolution of customer queries with the appropriate internal staff to ensure payment is received
- Manage credit referencing
- Monitor credit limits and payment terms
- Identify outstanding remittances
- Compose weekly credit note batches on excel and send for business approval
- Allocate cash and resolve unidentified cash. Reconciliation of customer accounts
- Send out account statements and further outstanding reminders in line with Company Control Policy
- Prepare cash and age debtor reports. Distribute accurate reports in a timely manner as required
- Implement improvements to existing processes / systems as required
- Working alongside Business Unit Managers to help drive KPI targets.
Skills, Experience & Qualities
- Must have proven credit control experience
- CICM qualifications / qualification by experience would be advantageous
- Demonstrated ability to reduce overdue debt and maintain a tidy ledger.
- Strong commercial acumen and financial analysis skills.
- A demonstrated ability to process large quantity of data quickly and effectively and to deliver results.
- Excellent IT skills including a high level of proficiency in Excel.
- Experience of Microsoft Great Plains and Credit Hound software would be an advantage
- You will have strong interpersonal skills with both written and verbal communication skills at all levels, with a confident and professional telephone manner
- Able to build relationships and work effectively with others at all levels across the business in person, by phone and on email
- You will have a strong work ethic and be highly organised and methodical
- Solution-focused, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
- Persistent and resilient under pressure
- You will be detail oriented and accurate with the ability to review your own work and detect and fix errors prior to your managers review
- A good team player, who can work on their own initiative as well as follow guidance and instructions from senior members of the team
- Self-motivated, resourceful and keen to learn and share knowledge
- Flexible and hardworking approach.
You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience required for this role, then please apply to Evolve Recruitment, Kingston upon Thames for more information.Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.