Credit Controller
Job Reference: 887183
Stowmarket
£28,000 - £30,000 per annum
MacKenzie King are recruiting a Credit Controller to join a leading supplier within their industry. As a sole Credit Controller you will be responsible for taking ownership of the sales ledger and credit control function, ensuring the timely collection of money from both businesses and customers for products supplied.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Collection of all customer debt within company payment terms and in line with company procedures
- Manage cash sales
- Post and reconcile customer payments daily
- Customer account application processing, administration and set up
- Customer Master File maintenance
- Alert Head of Finance at earliest opportunity of any possibility of bad/doubtful debt, issues arising with customer accounts
- Liaise with internal colleagues to resolve queries and assess credit worthiness of new and existing customers
- Be first point of contact for account customer queries to include dealing with emails in central customer email inbox
- Manage and report on overtrading accounts
- Manage the ON STOP procedure
- Prepare and present credit control position at monthly credit control meeting
- Take responsibility for reconciliation and integrity of the sales ledger
- Investigation and resolution of queries, correction of errors and differences
- To build sound relationships with customers and internal colleagues
- To meet accounting deadlines, in order to achieve the company’s reporting requirements
- Assist the accounts team where required
Qualifications and experience
- Friendly and approachable, a team player who takes pride in their work
- Communicates well, and able to develop relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders
- Experience of working in a busy accounts team
- Capable of planning their work to achieve strict deadlines
- Highly accurate, and can demonstrate attention to detail
- Flexible and adaptable to changing demands and procedures
- IT literate especially in Accounting Software & Microsoft Office particularly Excel
If you would like to talk to a consultant about this role, contact:
Stephanie Capstick
"This is great for an individual that wants to take ownership of their function within a small but busy accounts team."
Stephanie Capstick