Credit Controller/Collections Officer

Sewell Moorhouse are working with a rapidly growing international business in their search for a highly motivated Credit Controller.
This is a large but stable team which rewards its members with financial bonuses and development opportunities.

The Role:-

- Maintaining a clean ledger, minimising overdue debt and maximising cash receipts.
- Regularly reconciling trading accounts to ensure that cash collection activity can be completed in a straight forward, time efficient and effective manner.
- Ensuring payments are allocated to customers account to avoid unnecessary ageing.
- Prioritising collection activity on the ledger for greatest effect with a particularly focus on those invoices that are most aged.
- Pro-actively managing customer, and colleague, relationships to achieve the best results possible.
- Collecting interim payments and withhold goods in order to limit unauthorised credit exposure and maximise cash flow.
- Visiting customers as required and with the support of management.
- Any other duties as and when required by management.

The Person:-

- Experienced Microsoft Excel user, ideally to Intermediate level.
- Be an experienced user of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.
- Ideally an experienced cash collector, with specific experience of trade credit.
- A capability to communicate clearly and concisely.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Meet cash targets set by line manager.
- Be able to manage high workload, setting own and meeting agreed objectives.

Salary: GBP17,000 - GBP18,000 + Bonus

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm

Sewell Moorhouse acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers