Location: This role is offered on a permanent basis. It is a hybrid role, working from our Corby office two days per week.
We're looking for an Accounts Receivable Credit Controller to join our team and support cash collection activities within the UK Customer Market Sector. In this role, you'll be responsible for helping us meet key targets for cash collection, aged debt, and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)—all while ensuring compliance with RS Group’s credit policies.
What you will be doing:
1. Collaborating with the UK AR team to achieve cash collection, aged debt, and DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) targets.
2. Proactively identifying, investigating, and resolving customer account and payment queries.
3. Regularly reviewing debtor ledgers to spot and correct unallocated or misposted payments promptly.
4. Providing accurate, timely reporting on debtor balances and communicating progress clearly to managers.
5. Logging and managing customer disputes, contributing to their swift resolution and closure.
6. Identifying potential bad debts, escalating where necessary, and supporting legal action as needed.
7. Monitoring the AR inbox and ensuring all emails are actioned efficiently and professionally.
About you:
8. Experience in credit control.
9. Familiarity with SAP or similar ERP systems (desirable, but not essential).
10. A keen eye for risk, with the ability to spot and mitigate potential bad debts early.
11. The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, while staying organised and focused.
12. A drive for continuous service improvement and a collaborative team spirit.
The extras you’ll get:
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and private healthcare. In the UK&I, we’ve introduced new Individual and Family Friendly Policies including:
13. Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
14. Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
15. Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
16. We are proud to offer inclusive benefits and programs that reflect the diverse identities and experiences of our employees. Our healthcare coverage includes enhanced support for all individuals, including the diverse needs of trans and non-binary colleagues—such as voice coaching, gender affirmation surgery (including facial surgery), and other medically necessary services. We also provide access to resources and programs tailored to the unique needs of all employees, regardless of gender identity or expression
17. Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all
We are RS Group:
RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.
Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.
We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.
RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.
In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Are you ready to explore the possibilities?
If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please contact Paula Rudkin by email to
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