Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities will include: -

- Day to day management of a team of Credit Controllers
- Responsible for mentoring, developing and motivating the team day to day, dealing with any escalations or issues as they arise
- Maintaining efficient and relevant credit control and credit management controls to ensure the timely collection of overdue debt
- Managing a busy ledger for a £170 Million t/o business, generating over 200,000 invoices per annum
- Successful resolution of disputes to reach settlements fair for both the customer and business
- Working closely with the Process Manager and Commercial department to constantly review sales ledger processes to ensure that they are optimised to their full potential
- Analysing business data and external data in order to set and review credit limits for new and existing customers
- Mentoring and developing the team to maximise efficiency and productivity
- Maintaining regular contact with all customers through site visits, as well as in the form of written and verbal communications
- Making specific contact with external auditors on sales ledger issues

To be successful for this role the candidate must demonstrate the following skills and experiences:-

* Ideally ICM qualified although not essential
* Have significant credit management experience
* Staff management experience
* Ability to analyse and interpret financial data to enable commercial and strategic decision making with logic and consistency
* Have a thorough understanding of economic and accounting principles and practices
* A sound business acumen with a strong understanding of the business and wider economic environment
* Working knowledge of SAP would be highly desirable
* Able to lead and manage change
* Excellent people management and stakeholder engagement skills

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities