Senior Credit Controller
12 month contract
£40K/ £200 per day through an umbrella company
Central London (Hybrid working)
My client is a fast growing consultancy and are looking for a Senior Credit Controller for 12 months to cover maternity.
Duties Include:
- Assist the EMEA Credit Control Manager & Team Leader on a day to day basis.
- Post cash accurately and in a timely manner for the region including intercompany payments.
- Month End Cash Reconciliations for all EMEA accounts.
- Complete daily administrative tasks, resolving internal and external queries.
- Assist Client Partners with collection of outstanding invoices including reviews/meetings, reporting, and chasing of debt.
- Specific management of EMEA wide Client accounts / countries which need assistance.
- Prepare the quarterly review of country commentary of all invoices over 180 days as part of SOX control, and assigning appropriate bad debt provisions at invoice level.
- Liaising closely with Billing & Accounts Payable to actively resolve queries and escalate issues as and when appropriate.
- Actively resolving all credit balances/unassigned cash within the region and documenting in line with legal requirements (seeking assistance from Manager as required).
- Assisting in the Month End close process from an AR perspective.
- Where circumstances dictate, working with our legal team on collection matters.
- Identifying (escalating where necessary) all bad debt write offs for Manager.
- Assisting with time sensitive projects.
Requirements:
- Professional and confident manner.
- Good communicator and comfortable talking to many different people at all levels in the organisation and clients.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Very organized/thorough note taking.
- Committed, bright, numerate and enthusiastic.
- Team player who thrives in a multi-tasking, deadline driven environment.
- Working knowledge of SAP (would be advantageous, but not essential) or other large enterprise wide accounting systems
- Fluent in English and a second language would be beneficial.
- At least two years relevant work experience.