Clyde & Co
Senior Credit Controller - 12 month FTC
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Type: Full Time
Duration: 12 month FTC
Location / Working Pattern: 2 days office / 3 days remote
Department: Credit Control
This is a high volume, fast paced role with the candidate responsible for supporting the team with cash collections for a number of senior partners across a variety of clients. This will be achieved through contacting clients AP teams directly, producing targeted reports to clients to drive payments or by working closely with Internal stakeholders to ensure all debt is collected in a timely fashion in line with team lock up targets.
Senior Credit Controllers should exhibit professionalism and trustworthiness and require excellent communication and negotiation skills, as well as an ability to work independently. As a senior there will be a requirement to review and document processes, manage workloads and re-assign tasks to relieve pressure points and help with issues, best practice and escalations to the senior team.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the credit control team and help them with organisational skills and sharing workloads.
- Ensure invoice debts are collected in a timely manner, in line with the collections strategy to meet cash collection and debtor day targets as advised (set monthly)
- Create accurate and easy to read month end information for delivery to all Partners
- Hold 'business as usual' meetings with Partners to discuss and resolve issues, including documenting actions and arranging follow up meetings with regular communications, escalating issues to the Team Leader
- Produce daily cash tracker and address issues as required
- Oversee training & set up of new starters
- Create and maintain a library of "How to" guides encompassing all clients and tasks
- Redistribute work during periods of absence according to priority
- Manage escalation process for non-payment or for late sending of invoices
- For invoices via ebilling systems, liaise with the Billing team or gain access to required hubs to enable reporting on the debt position
- Redistribute ledger items during periods of absence according to priority
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Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
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This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
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