Job description
Sewell Wallis are currently working with a leading, international professional services based business within Manchester City Centre. Our client are looking for an experienced Credit Controller who has ideally worked within a professional services environment to join their well-established, forward thinking finance team. This is an excellent time to join a large, growing business where progression and development from within is really encouraged.The role will involve a lot of client interaction and will require someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills and is able to speak to clients at all levels. The successful candidate will need to have excellent attention to detail and be able to recognise potential risks that should be escalated. Hybrid and flexible working will be available, with approximately two days in the office and the rest from home.
The role will mainly focus upon collecting overdue payment of all invoices issued by the Billing Team. This will be achieved through contacting clients directly, producing reports to clients to encourage payments or by working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure all debt is collected in a timely fashion and in line with deadlines.
The main duties of the role will be -
- Ensuring invoice debts are collected in a timely manner and following up if necessary by telephone, email and letter with agreed deadlines.
- Managing multiple ledgers.
- Preparing monthly ledger reports.
- Payment handling.
- Ensuring that credit notes are processed correctly, monitoring reasons for credit notes being raised.
- Identifying problem debts that require escalation and liaising with the Credit Control Manager as appropriate.
- Allocating cash.
- Maintaining relationships with both colleagues and clients.
- Holding regular meetings with partners and clients to ensure all debts are chased as necessary.
- Other ad-hoc tasks as required including invoice coding and running system reports.
The ideal candidate will -
- Have previous credit control experience ideally within professional services.
- Be able to communicate confidently with people at a senior level.
- Have excellent Excel skills and be able to pick up new systems quickly.
- Be comfortable working towards targets and deadlines.
Benefits -
- Hybrid working (2 days in the office, 3 days at home).
- New and modern office located next to good transport links.
- 25 days holiday.
For more information please contact Becky Gibson
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
