Powerday is a thriving, modern family business providing a friendly, caring and exciting place to work. As a leading London recycling and waste management company, we help clients - including the construction sector, commercial premises, local authorities, and other waste management companies - manage their resources as sustainably as possible. To us that means helping clients keep materials in their highest form to retain their value, recycling as much as possible and recovering the rest of their waste to generate energy. It means operating six sites across London to maximise our efficiency and minimise transport emissions and investing in state-of-the-art technology to enable 100% diversion of waste from landfill, with all sites run on renewable energy to help minimise the carbon footprint of our operations.
It's important to us to be at the forefront of our industry. We invest and innovate to achieve best practice in environmental, health & safety, quality, and fleet management. We support our employees to gain the knowledge and skills needed to meet these commitments, and we retain the accreditations and reporting systems to prove our achievements.
We have a strong community ethos and support our local communities in many ways. We help young, disadvantaged Londoners, through the power of sport with the Powerday Foundation - supported by our close links with London Boxing and Down Syndrome Swimming - and through the provision of career opportunities with Powerday Academy. Our work in the community is as important to us as our waste management services and we encourage our employees to get involved in our community activities.
Powerday operates from well-presented, comfortable offices with on-site secure, free parking – though we encourage use of public transport (our Head Office is a short walk from Willesden Junction station) or cycling (we operate a Cycle to Work scheme) where possible. Our offices are well-equipped with kitchens and break-out areas, and our head office has gym facilities available to all employees.
As a team, we all work hard and to high standards, but we have fun whilst doing so. The company offers great training and development opportunities through the Powerday Academy and provides health and wellbeing support which helps ensure we remain a healthy, happy, and productive team.
The Role:
This is a hands-on role where together with the Senior Credit Controller and the Associate Finance Director you will be working in a team managing 200 live accounts from account opening to setting credit limits to receipt of payment.
Powerday is a dynamic fast-paced environment that requires a calm and well organised approach. You will be self-motivated with an analytical mind and a sharp eye for detail. You will partner with the Associate Finance Director and Senior Management team to recognise and communicate risk status. There is plenty of scope to develop the role and Powerday is really keen to encourage new and innovative ideas for system and process improvement.
We have recently updated the finance system and there are a number of projects which need to be completed to ensure that the finance and management system are working cohesively together.
Key responsibilities of the role are:
· Managing approximately 200 live accounts and taking full ownership of your Ledger
· Assist in collecting payments of roughly £5m per month
· Reduce Debtor Days from 50 (Feb 2019) to 45 days
· Opening client accounts, credit checking and issuing credit limits
· Monitoring client accounts to ensure they do not exceed terms/limits
· Assist in posting daily banking received by Bacs and Cheques and payment allocations
· Managing and resolve any queries and maintain a log of the query
· Raise credit notes and any ad hoc specialist invoicing
· Log all work in progress on Opera 3 Credit Manager module
· Working in a team and assist in holiday cover
· Assist in monitoring the credit group email inbox
· Assist in month end tasks and reporting
Key competencies of the role
· Be self-motivated with an analytical mind and a keen eye for detail
· Ambitious dynamic go getter with a real can-do attitude
· Previously worked as a credit controller preferably within construction or service-related industry for a minimum, of 1 year.
· Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
· Good team player
· Experience of working in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications
· Ideally degree educated with a credit management/ accounting qualification. However we will always look at candidates qualified with experience.
· Intermediate Microsoft skills with knowledge of Excel (Vlookup & Pivot tables)
· Ideally worked with Pegasus Opera 3
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* On-site parking
* Store discount
Experience:
* accounting: 1 year (preferred)
* credit control: 2 years (required)
Work Location: In person