Posted: 18 June
The role
We are working with an excellent distribution company, based in Leigh who are looking for a credit controller to join the finance team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role would suit someone with a strong customer service/collections/debt background and someone wanting to work within an accounts department.
Working with a well-established team you will be responsible for the collection of outstanding payments from key customer accounts.
Your key activities will involve:
- Taking responsibility part of the Credit Control function
- Chasing up outstanding payments
- Chasing remittances
- Chasing customers for debit notes
- Liaising and building relationships with a variety of customers
- Dealing with customer queries
- Cash allocation
- Liaise with our Credit insurers to obtain credit scoring for our customer base
- Sorting payments and posting to ledgers
- Taking card payment online for pro-forma and existing account and allocating
- Raising manual invoices when required
- Opening of new accounts via trade portal
- Obtaining Trade References
- Running Experian Reports and First Source reports
- Updating contact log with up-to-date reports and information
- Running aged debt reports
- Raising credit notes for damaged goods, no returns discounts and settlement discounts
To be considered for the role, you must have:
- Experience of working in customer service or collections background
- Excel experience
Benefits
- 37.5 hours per week; Monday - Friday (40-minute lunch)
- 22 days holiday (including your birthday) + Bank Holidays
- Holiday entitlement increases with service + additional days throughout the year
- Early Finish Friday (4pm)
- Free parking
- Company Pension
- Healthcare Cash Plan
