At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage customer payments, negotiate plans, and support financial reporting.
- Company: Join a leading multi-national manufacturing firm in Peterborough.
- Benefits: Competitive pay rates and hands-on experience in finance.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Gain valuable skills in credit control and financial management.
- Qualifications: Strong attention to detail and knowledge of accounting principles.
The predicted salary is between 15.69 - 15.69 £ per hour.
PE Global is currently recruiting for a Credit Controller /Accounting Assistant for a leading multi-national manufacturing client based in Peterborough.
This is an initial 6-9 months contract position working on site 5 days per week.
Pay rate is £15.69ph PAYE or £21.30ph Umbrella.
Duties of the role/Responsibilities
- Adhere to dunning process to ensure customers pay to agreed terms, mitigating risk to the organisation.
- 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.
Education/Experience
- Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision.
- Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools/techniques to collect data from a variety of sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion (ie. Power BI).
- Ability to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external customers at various levels.
- Good knowledge of accounting and financial accounting.
- Experience with credit insurance.
- Fluent in Microsoft Excel, Power BI is advantageous.
Nice to have experience, knowledge
- 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 (Io CM) or Institute of Export (MIEx).
Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.
Please click the link below to apply.
Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in UK.
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Credit Controller in Peterborough employer: PE Global (UK)
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