Credit controller / Credit control assistant

Temporary to Permanent credit controller Ross on Wye

Your new company
Our client specialises in helping businesses meet legal and safety regulations. They focus on areas like water safety, hazardous materials (like asbestos), fire safety, and occupational hygiene.Their services include risk assessments, monitoring, and training to ensure environments are safe and compliant with laws.
Your new role

• Assessing the appropriateness of credit limits, and giving recommendations on credit limit increases where required, with the appropriate supporting documentation.
• The approval of the credit limit increases up to the Credit Control Assistant’s approval limit as per the credit control policy.
• Liaising with the external sales team to assist with gathering information to support new accounts and credit limit increases, and to help chase outstanding debts.
• Discuss accounts with other Kingspan companies.
• Performing credit checks on new customers and current customers every 12 months.
• The customer’s responsibility for ensuring customer receipts are posted onto SAP using the bank statements, and cash is allocated on a timely basis.
• Resolving internal and external queries in a timely manner in conjunction with the sales team.
• Review and release, when necessary, orders that are on stop.
• Ensure that Customer Statements are issued in a timely manner.
• Reviewing the sales ledger on a continual basis, and chasing customers by telephone and email that are operating reviewing credit terms/limits.
• Issue stop lists on a regular and timely basis to the internal and external sales teams.
• Contact customers throughout the month to check that the customers have all invoices due and ensure accounts are paid up-to-date and in full.
• Support the Credit Control Manager in completing the month-end process and monthly management reporting in a timely manner, including a Debtors reporting pack.
• Negotiate and prepare payment plans for customers experiencing financial difficulties.
• Ensure complete compliance with the credit control policy, authority matrix and the Group Accounting Manual at all times.
• Assist with the Internal and External audits, providing information to auditors that they request.
• Any other adhoc duties are required by the Credit Control Manager, Financial Controller and/or Finance Director.

What you’ll need to succeed
Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
Experience in the use of SAP or another Accounting system.
Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills, including MS Word and Excel.
Has strong interpersonal skills and can liaise with all internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll get in return
£15-16 an hour = around £30,000 annually
25 days annual leave pro rata (Plus Bank Holiday)
Contributory pension scheme
Supported professional development
Free parking
On-site canteen

What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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