Credit Controller
Richmond, Southwest London
Hourly rate: £13.00 p/h to £15.00 p/h paid weekly
9:00am to 5:30pm, in office.
Crowley Cox are recruiting a credit controller on a temporary to permanent basis on behalf of a growing and dynamic company based in Richmond, Southwest London. The company has amazing light and airy offices, free drinks on a Thursday after work and amazing breakfasts on a Tuesday morning which everyone enjoys together. The working environment is busy making the days pass quickly without being highly pressured and the company have a low staff turnover.
Based in the heart of Richmond working in amazing modern offices in Southwest London with lovely social open plan facilities. Minutes' walk from an amazing high street, close to local tubes, trains and bus routes. The high street features a variety of boutique shops, restaurants, bars and trendy cafes catering to all your lunch and after work drinks requirements. Apply today to join this amazing company!
The finance team are supportive, nurturing and helpful.
Key responsibilities of the Credit Controller:
- Chase outstanding debt by telephone, email and letter.
- Performing credit checks and periodical reviews of customer credit limits.
- Periodical review, maintenance and updating of customer contact details.
- Processing and distributing of credit notes to wholesale customers.
- Processing trade references on request.
- Generating reports and statements for internal use.
- Spearheading and applying our company credit control policy and keeping monthly debtors' collections within set targets.
- Chasing overdue debt using our credit control software.
- Sending out reminders of upcoming debt.
- Calling through customer lists of outstanding debt.
- Managing your own credit control calendar to ensure chasing is performed methodically and on time.
- Taking customer payments over the phone using our secure online merchant terminal.
- Processing and posting daily receipts into our accounting system from our bank account.
- Performing month-end bank reconciliations to ensure the accuracy of the month's postings.
- Managing and maintaining the sales ledger customer accounts.
- Identifying and reconciling customer account discrepancies.
- Assisting wholesale customers with customer services queries, including providing documentation on request.
- Month-end reconciliations of the debtors listing, including allocation of unreconciled cash.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills of the Credit Controller:
- Ideally at least 1 years' experience in a similar role.
- Strong arithmetic, typing and computer skills, specifically with accounting software
- A high level of accuracy, efficiency and accountability
- An investigative mind with an attention to detail.
- A warm heart and the ability to build relationships with customers - we maintain a kind yet firm attitude to credit control.
- Excellent telephone and communication skills
Due the high volume of applications we are unfortunately only able to contact successful applicants.