Job Title:	Senior Credit Controller - Bedfordshire
Reference:	1111379
Salary:	£20,000 - £22,000
Location(s):	Bedfordshire
Industry(s):	Blue Chip
Advertiser:	Hays Accountancy & Finance
Employment Type:	Permanent
Posted:	11-03-2010

Description:

A Senior Credit Controller is required to be responsible for ensuring sales invoices are paid promptly, sales ledgers are up to date and to reduce the sales ledger debtor days.  This role is reporting directly to the Credit Manager, the role will not have direct reports to supervise however a Senior Credit Controller is required to bring experience and knowledge to the team.  Additonal European languages would be an advantage however not essential.  Manufacturing industry experience is a must along with either booking keeping, sales ledger or purchase ledger experience.
Responsibilities:-

• Banking of customer cheques received
• Post and allocation of cash received from customers to the sales ledger on a daily basis
• Filing remittances received from customers
• Chasing debtors for outstanding payments or resolutions of outstanding queries
• Collating and distributing customer contra invoices to sales account managers
• Account reconciliations, sales ledger control account reconciliation
• Reporting analysis of outstanding and overdue invoices
• Dealing with debit mote queries raised by the customers
• Scanning all debit notes
• Write up daily banking of all incoming payments and update spreadsheet
• Weekly meetings
• Raise request for price and quantity credits, obtaining approval for credits from Financial Controller and allocating credit notes
• Print and post all customer statements
• Productions of sales ledger month end reports/debtor day report to be share and rotated with the Credit Manager to ensure the roles are covered for holiday periods
• Entering International Purchase Invoices onto the system
• Weekly meeting with Credit Manager, monthly meeting with Credit Manager/Financial Controller on Debtors and status of outstanding issues
• Raising re-charge invoices for admin charges to associated companies
• Clearing down invoices weekly
• Learn to provide cover on inter-company agreements

 
 

• Significant credit control experience (ideally with multi-national accounts and within manufacturing businesses)
• Bookkeeping, sales ledger and reconciliation experience
• Strong numeracy skills
• Intermediate skills with Excel
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to demonstrate on building relationships quickly and strong influencing skills
• Confident in overcoming objections, tenacious and successfully resolve problems
• Excellent organisational skills with methodical approach to tasks
• Self motivated
• Ability to work within a team
• Confident, articulate and professional

To be confirmed.