Location
Ipswich, Suffolk | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior Credit Controller
Job Reference: 887306
Ipswich
£30,000 - £35,000 per annum
MacKenzie King are proud to be working with one of our trusted, well known clients to recruit a Senior Credit Controller for their team. As a Senior Credit Controller you will work closely with the Financial Controller as well as playing a supporting role to other more junior members of the team. The successful Senior Credit Controller should be able to work well within a team, have an eye for detail and accuracy, as well a great communication and interpersonal skills.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Responsible for the debt activities of six companies
- Preparation on regular reports and presenting same within regular meetings with Senior Management
- Monitoring all e-mail inboxes to ensure that any relevant e-mails are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Daily posting and allocation of receipts
- Monitoring and reporting of expected receipts and reporting to the FC for cashflow reporting.
- Setting-up and maintaining customer accounts
- Managing all required credit limit requests
- Liaising with external credit insurance company & managing claims
- Processing of Bad Debt journals
- Liaising with the respective businesses re. customer queries and processing of credit notes
- Arranging payment plans as required.
- Managing contract retentions
- Ad-hoc projects/tasks for the Financial Controller/Finance Director
Qualifications and experience
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a credit control role
- Able to comfortably manage high levels of data across multiple companies.
- Effective communication skills – verbal and written – internal and external.
- A strong knowledge of Office 365 (Microsoft Excel experience required)
- Ability to solve problems.
- Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach
- Able to understand the importance of process and create/amend where necessary.
- Good organisational and planning skills
- Flexible approach with an ability to work under their own initiative.
- Reliable, hardworking, and effective time management skills
- Experience of working within a contracting environment (desirable)
- Knowledge of working with retentions is (desirable)
- Sage 50 Business Cloud experience (desirable)
Job tags
Salary
£30k - £35k per annum
