Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for a Credit Control Supervisor to join a well-established Service provider just on the outskirts of Manchester. You will be joining a large finance team on a permanent basis and report to the Financial Controller.

The ideal candidate must have strong analytical skills, work well under pressure and have attention to detail. Experience in Credit Control is essential, as you will need to come in and hit the ground running in the demanding and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities will broadly contain the following duties:

• Team management of 5 direct reports.
• Cash receipts: Ensure accurate posting from various GBP and non-GBP bank accounts across numerous business divisions and sales ledgers.
• Set and monitor collection targets by ledger, business division, and team member.
• Reduce overdue balance and identification of doubtful/ bad debt.
• Reduction in debtor day’s value.
• Analyze and report to management.
• Build and improve relationships to ensure quicker payment with fewer issues.
• Extracting reports, insightful commercial and financial analysis of report and recommendations of credit limit values.
• Tidying up of all ledgers: unallocated cash, write offs, matching.
• Potential management of large and complex customers.
• Analyze current processes, recommend improvements.
• Introduce insightful and timely analysis for reporting to senior management.
• Build and improve relationships within wider finance team and also outside finance.
• Assist in migration to new system including data cleansing.
• Continuous improvement across all.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

CICM/ AAT qualification desirable. Ability to identify weaknesses and identification of solutions. Experience of managing direct reports and their development. Experience of dealing with multiple currencies and customers in multiple countries. Excellent attention to detail, whilst also capable of understanding the bigger picture. We are looking for someone who is professional with a pro-active, 'can-do' attitude, excellent communication skills and who has strong Excel skills.