CREDIT MANAGER
UP TO £45,000 P/A
NOTTINGHAM CITY CENTRE
FULL TIME, PERMANENT
We are recruiting for an experienced Credit Manager working in Nottingham City Centre. As the Credit Manager and you will be managing and co-ordinating credit control activities. In a timely manner, collecting cash from customers to facilitate business cash flow, researching, identifying, highlighting and managing risk in the customer base. You will also be identifying process and procedure improvements to minimise aged and bad debt.
The Credit Manager Role:
- Manage a small team to collect sales ledger cash owed to the Company by customers within the due dates
- Establish and maintain best practice credit control techniques and processes
- Analyse aged debt and develop strategic collection process to minimise impact to the Company
- Monitor and review the credit worthiness of new and existing customers through appropriate credit checks. Analyse debtor information for trends and changes to identify potential and actual risk, taking appropriate proactive action to highlight any issues and ensure a focused approach to collection where they arise.
- Develop KPI suit to manage the team and debt information.
- Arrange and facilitate monthly credit meetings with senior management.
- Manage the credit team ensuring that team members are appropriately resourced, trained and empowered to act as an effective credit management service to the business.
- Strategic management of the team roles and responsibilities ensuring all customers are communicated with over the monthly cycle.
- Attend Customer meetings to review and discuss debt.
- Provide regular and accurate debt and credit control information to the Head of Receivables and Billing and the senior management team.
Experience Required:
- 5 years experience working in/ managing a busy credit control team
- Have managed a team to deliver agreed outcomes within agreed timescales
- Managed large numbers of debtor accounts
- Managed credit control activity within a large multi-customer organisation
- Comprehensive awareness of direct debit collection process
- Good level of knowledge of international collection methods from overseas customers
- High level of PC skills, especially Excel spreadsheets
- Demonstrable attention to detail whilst maintaining a heavy workload
- High level of numeracy.