Credit Controller, 6 Month FTC in Birmingham

Credit Controller, 6 Month Fixed Term Contract - Birmingham

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results. Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Credit Controller on a 6 month fixed term contract to ensure prompt collection of the firm’s unpaid bills ledger in accordance with the firm’s credit policy. The team is based in our Birmingham office. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• To support the Credit Control team in chasing overdue debts by telephone, email and letter up to litigation.
• Following up unpaid bills with Partners and Lawyers.
• Liaising with internal teams and Partners to minimise & quickly resolve queries.
• Building strong relationships with Internal & External Clients.
• Working in a team of Credit Controllers.
• Responsible for the collection of debt within specific departments minimising exposure to bad debts through effective credit & risk management whilst maintaining & building strong internal and external client relationships.
• Generating monthly debtor reports for Partners and Lawyers and statements to clients.
• Promote proactive contact with clients & fee earners in the pursuit of swift payment of bills.
• Attend regular aged debt review meetings with Partners to discuss & resolve problem debts.
• Dealing with allocation of cash receipts and queries.
• Meeting deadlines and monthly cash targets.
• Proactive in reducing DFO.
• Sales ledger maintenance.
• Provide cover for other groups as and when required.
• Any other ad hoc task that may be required in the course of the day-to-day activities of the department.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.