Job Description

The role is offered on a part-time basis, three days per week although the client can be flexible as to how these hours are worked.

You will be a flexible individual who is comfortable working in a small dynamic team where duties and requirements can change daily. Ideally you will have strong Credit Control experience within a small to medium sized business. The key aspect of the role will be to manage the sales ledger and credit control activities for the UK and US businesses.

Duties will include:

· Manage the AR ledger for the UK and US businesses including performing all normal sales ledger and credit control duties.

· Run credit reports for new and existing customers as required and provide guidance on credit terms to Sales and Operations teams.

· Chase overdue sales invoices as required and issue customer statements on a regular basis. Proactively manage invoices falling due for payment.

· Issue dunning letters and other correspondence as required to ensure timely collection of overdue invoices.

· Liaise with Sales and Operations teams to improve communication with Finance and develop better control framework.

· Maintain integrity of sales ledger database including customer AP contact details, credit limits, payment terms etc

· Manage and mitigate credit risk by developing new and existing credit control policies to bring them up to date.

· Assist other international credit control functions as required.

· Advise on the benefits and costs of using external collection agencies for problem accounts.

Key skills required will be:

· Excellent attention to detail, with a high level of accuracy.

· Ability to build effective working relationships – particularly with Sales and Operations teams.

· Good organisational skills

· Strong communicator both internally and externally with good written and verbal skills.

· Flexible and comfortable working in a small dynamic team

· Proactive and comfortable challenging current thinking and existing processes.

· Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word and Excel

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities