Your new company
UK based law firm
Your new role
You will work as part of a busy team of around 6 credit controllers within the Credit Department. You will be responsible for a ledger & achieving the firm's collection targets.
Daily duties will cover:
- High volume external/internal phone calls/emails chasing the firm's debt.
- Regular contact with Partners, Clients and fee-earners about their debt.
- Frequent liaison with other teams within the Finance department.
- Regular meetings with management to discuss collections, escalations and problematic issues.
- Understand & manage the Partners requirements.
- Ensure cash collection targets are met.
- Collating & correcting Invoice data & cleansing existing data
- Liaising with accounts to provide and receive information to ensure data accuracy
- Contact the Sales Ledger Team to ensure allocations are completed accurately.
- Review all debt to identify matters in need of write off or escalations.
- Use excel to sort, analyse & display data, & use pivot tables & V lookups.
What you'll need to succeed
- Good credit control experience including managing queries.
- Proven track record in reducing debt in a busy collections environment
- Previous legal or professional services experience
- A tenacious personality able to handle difficult phone calls and meetings.
- Lateral thinker able to generate creative solutions to complex problems
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to manage high work-loads.
- A team player but able to use own initiative.
- IT literate with ability to pick up new systems quickly.
- Flexible with a positive 'can do' attitude.
- Good level of numeracy, spelling and grammar.
- Attention to detail, able to write concise and detailed emails.
What you'll get in return
- Flexible working options available.
- Great team to work with.
- Career progression.
What you need to do now
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