Junior Credit Controller - Career Legal : Job Details

Our Client is a full service commercial law firm based in London’s legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.

They are looking for a Junior Credit Controller, this role is critical in supporting the responsibilities of the Credit Control Team and in helping respond to queries from Fee-earners, secretaries, and clients. You’ll also support the London Finance Team to ensure the accurate, timely and efficient completion of credit control related tasks related to cash collection.

Responsibilities

• Sending client statements and copy invoices in line with a pre agreed timetable.
• Responding to the majority client queries received into the credit control inbox.
• Assisting Credit Controllers to schedule and diarise monthly debt meetings, including updating the team meeting schedule to detail meeting dates and report any meetings not attended.
• Assisting with the monthly production and printing of debt reports, collating the reports as applicable and filing appropriately within the firm’s document management system.
• Updating client email addresses and contact details on practice management system.
• Updating client contact information and specific requirements within the firms accounts systems to ensure correspondence is sent to the correct client contacts.
• Adding new clients to the collections control panel on a weekly basis.
• Producing reports in Excel for the Credit Controllers; to include reporting on 90 day debts; invoice dispatch and interoffice invoicing; circulating these reports to the Working Capital Manager.
• Attending the Credit Control meetings as required.
• Assisting with the chasing of some specific debts; to include debts over 1 year old.
• Supporting the Credit Control team in compiling files for sending to external debt collectors as required.
• Supporting the wider Working Capital team with any ad-hoc duties, as required.

Candidate Profile

• Excellent and accurate numeracy skills.
• Attention to detail - a high level of accuracy is essential.
• Ability to manage a busy workload with good organisational and prioritising skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure, where necessary may be required to work overtime at month end, half year end and year ends.
• Sound IT skills - experience of Word and Excel.
• Full training on document management and practice management systems will be provided.
• The ideal candidate should have 5 GCSE’s at grades A-C or equivalent, including Maths and English.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.