Credit Controller

Desired Skills: Excel,PowerBi

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 (IoCM) 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***