Credit Controller - Accounts Receivable

Overview

Responsible for supporting our Accounts Receivable activities within UK Customer Market Sector, to achieve Cash Collection, Aged Debt and DSO (days sales outstanding) targets in line with RS Group Credit Policy and procedures. Ensuring cash collection activities are performed and aged debt reduction targets are delivered while adhering to credit management policies.

This is a hybrid working role with the requirement to be on-site in Corby x2 days per week.

What you’ll be doing

• Work together with the UK AR Team to deliver Cash, Debtor and DSO targets.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve debtor relates queries.
• Review the debtors’ ledgers on a regular basis for unallocated/mis posted payments, ensuring these are corrected in a timely manner.
• Provide reliable, accurate and up to date information of debtor’s balances, and demonstrate visibility of progress to managers.
• Record and manage disputes & contribute to the resolution and closure.
• Recognise any irrecoverable debts and assist with legal action.
• Monitor e-mail inbox, ensuring all relevant e-mails are actioned in a timely manner.

About you

• Experience in SAP is an advantage.
• Good Level – Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word experience.
• Target driven to achieve bad debt and DSO targets
• Ability to proactively identify and prevent potential bad debts.
• A logical approach to troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems (technical and non- technical challenges within Accounts Receivable).
• Demonstrate the ability or have experience working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Adhere to and operate within the agreed levels of authority.
• Seek continuous service improvement opportunities.
• Ability to maintain documentation & controls so that there are no major issues during audit.
• Taking full ownership of resolving problems.

We are RS Group

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 800,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems. We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

Rewards

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company (Annual Bonus, Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance, Generous Pension) we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues.

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