Credit Controller

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.