Credit Controller

Credit Controller opportunity within a PE backed Group offering challenge, variety and career progression within a fast-paced business environment.

The Company

A PE backed multi-disciplinary Professional Services Group with offices across the UK and Overseas. The Group consists of businesses providing a full range of Advisory Solutions to SME and Corporate clients and is expanding rapidly.

The Opportunity

A new opportunity for a Credit Controller has arisen within the Head Office Finance Department. Based in Bolton and working as part of an experienced growing Finance Team you will manage account ledgers across several Group businesses and report to the Credit Control Manager.

As Credit Controller you duties and responsibilities will involve:

• Proactively managing the accounts of all clients across 2 Group ledgers, ensuring timely payments are made within the contractual payment terms.
• Contacting customers to ensure payment is received in a timely fashion, undertaking proactive credit control via phone & email.
• Updating internal systems with notes of all correspondence to and from Clients.
• Allocation of payments received.
• Managing the credit control in-box (email).
• Conducting weekly debtors meeting with Credit Control Manager and circulating said report to the wider business.
• Escalating all problematic issues to Credit Control Manager.
• Communicating with other offices to ensure issues causing the delay in customer invoices are dealt with promptly.
• Building relationships with customers to ensure smooth running of accounts.
• Liaising with external debt collection agency re the outsourcing of any non-paying accounts.

The Person

You will be Credit Control or Accounts professional able to meet the following criteria:

• 2 years experience within a Credit Control or Debt Collection role
• Experience using Microsoft Teams and Outlook advantageous
• Experience in Excel (VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables etc)
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Organisation skills, able to multi-task and priorities key tasks
• Energy and drive

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious Credit Controller early in their career and keen join a fast-growing business that offers great learning, development and career progression to its people. Contact Alastair McLean to discuss this opportunity