Credit Controller
Forge Talent have partnered with a highly successful service provider as they require the skills and experience of a Senior Credit Controller to join their team on a 9 month temporary basis based in Ashton Under Lyne
This is a varied and end to end position that will take responsibility for the end-to-end credit control and cash receivables process, ensuring accurate account set ups and proactive cash collection on a large volume of B2B accounts.
An ideal opportunity for an experienced Sales Ledger and Credit Control Specialist with excellent relationship building and time management skills.
Credit Controller Responsibilities:
Reporting directly to and working closely with the Financial Controller, the Credit Controller will take full responsibility for;
- Credit checking and approving new customer accounts, ensuring all relevant documentation is in place before extending credit.
- Pro-actively chasing outstanding payments and ensuring effective payment methods.
- Processing receipts via cash, BACS and cheque methods onto the accounting system, ensuring all correspondence is recorded.
- Reconciling payments onto individual customer accounts
- Assessing credit note requests, actioning and recording as required.
- Proactively investigating and resolving any customer queries or issues to ensure a positive outcome and avoid payment delays.
- Complete the weekly cash reconciliation for collection and banking.
- Reconciliation and recording of receipts for multiple additional business sites.
- Processing and sending out of customer statements
- Providing reporting to the Finance Manager and updating about any problematic debt.
- Generating and distributing customer invoices.
- Monitoring of potential bad debts, following company legal procedures as required.
Credit Controller Required Experience:
- Minimum 3 years' experience in a similar end to end Receivables/ Credit Control position, ideally gained within a stand alone capacity.
- A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- A target focussed and results driven mentality.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build strong and trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- The ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a friendly finance team.
- Problem solving abilities, reaching effective resolutions to ensure timely customer payments.
- Experience of cash and bank reconciliations and accounting for customer payments using multiple methods (Cash, BACS, Cheque)
- Strong IT and computerised system skills, including Microsoft Excel.
Role & Salary
- The credit controller role will be paying £14.50 per hour plus holiday pay and would be looking to start asap for up to 9 months.
- The role would be full time in the office
If you have the skills and experience detailed above and are seeking a new opportunity to utilise your abilities within an excellent organisation, I am very keen to speak to you.