Innova Solutions
Account Assistant
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Job Title: Credit Controller
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Duration: 6 Months
Pay Rate: £20-20.87/ Hourly/Umbrella Inside IR35
What You Will Do
- Adhere to dunning process to ensure customers pay to agreed terms, mitigating risk to the organization.
- Negotiate payment plans, recovering interest and ensuring collection deadlines are met.
- Provide weekly Customer account updates to the Credit Manager and debt recovery progress.
- Lead customer and sales team aged debt reviews.
- Evaluate customers regularly for risk of bad debt.
- Support month-end closing activities, ensuring timely completion of reporting and reconciliation tasks.
- Effectively execute internal practices in accordance with our policy and corporate guidelines.
- Support the external audit process and internal SOX compliance reviews.
- Contribute towards process improvements, utilising data analytics to deliver new initiatives.
- Ability to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external customers at various levels.
- Good knowledge of accounting and financial accounting.
- Fluent in Microsoft Excel.
Top Candidates will also have:
- Knowledge of process improvement techniques and tools (ie. Six Sigma, Lean).
- Experience of Sarbanes-Oxley and/or other financial reporting governance controls.
- Prior job-related experience having worked within a fast-paced manufacturing/industrial environment, or within debt collection / recovery within credit finance insurance.
- Membership of the Institute of Credit Management (IoCM) or Institute of Export (MIEx).
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Accuracy and Attention to Detail
Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
- Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
- Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
Flexibility and Adaptability
Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Adjusts to new or changing assignments, processes, and people.
- Demonstrates willingness to listen to other opinions.
- Provides examples of shifting from task to task.
- Identifies and considers alternative approaches to situations or problems.
- Accepts new or radical ideas with an open mind; avoids snap reactions.
Followership
Knowledge of and the ability to carry out strategies and tasks that support the mission and goals of the leader and the organization.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Explains key concepts of exemplary followership.
- Accepts and provides honest and respectful feedback.
- Identifies styles of followership and associated behaviors or characteristics.
- Describes examples of ineffective followership and associated consequences.
Accounts Receivable (A-R)
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Knowledge of an organization's billing requirements; ability to utilize the proper tools and follow accounts receivable practices and procedures.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Performs major types of accounts receivable transactions.
- Prepares miscellaneous or special invoices.
- Maintains accounts receivable records as a regular part of daily work.
- Implements current accounting practices and closing cycle procedures and requirements.
- Processes payments, credits, debits and adjustments.
Financial and Accounting Systems
Knowledge of functions, features and capabilities of financial and accounting systems; ability to use financial and accounting applications specific to the organization.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Locates relevant documentation and information.
- Names core financial and accounting applications.
- Identifies key functions of major financial systems.
- Describes planned changes to major applications.
General Ledger (G-L)
Knowledge of tools, practices and considerations for general ledger; ability to update and validate general ledger data.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Monitors and ensures the accuracy of one or more general ledger categories as a regular part of daily work.
- Analyzes the purpose, content, and distribution of standard G-L reports.
- Performs daily input into the general ledger as a regular part of the work.
- Works with chart of accounts and classifies transactions.
- Implements closing cycle process and associated feeds, requirements and procedures.
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