Credit Controller

**Job Title**:Credit Controller

**Location**:Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Hours**: Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 (1 hour lunch)

This could be your opportunity to begin a challenging and rewarding career in a healthcare company that empowers movement for people with mobility challenges.

**The impact you will have**

Working as the Credit Controller you will manage a portfolio of existing and new customers for the purpose of controlling, reducing and maintaining debt. Identifying disputes and logging these into SAP providing any documentation to customers as required. Do you like having a varied working day? Would you like to work for a big company that feels like a family? Then this role could be for you.....

**Responsibilities**:

- Achieve high volumes of daily credit control, documenting call activity - promised payments - installments
- Log customer disputes in SAP ensuring the level of detail is sufficient for analysing root cause issues
- Achieve high level collection results for nominated accounts reducing and then maintaining aged debt position
- To provide speedy solutions for document requests
- including SOA/Dunning
- Releasing orders in line with credit policy and updating list daily for stream stakeholders
- To identify root causes for slow settlement and report back to the Credit Manager or Deputy
- Preparing journals for authorisation using the published approver matrix
- Attend any meetings as required
- Utilise any required portals either customer or internal
- Read and interpret financial data working with line manager and DCT to ensure credit facilities are appropriate and in line with policy

**Essential Skills/Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience in a credit control environment - Essential
- Institute of Credit Management member - Desirable
- Ability to communicate with customers and staff at all levels of the organisation (essential) with excellent telephone manner
- UK Requirements: Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Driving Licence: Required to hold a valid UK drivers licence.
- Travel: Ability to travel within the UK as and when required.
- IT: Microsoft Office skills namely Excel, Word and PowerPoint - desirable. SAP and Mediset
- SAP essential
- To be personable yet articulate
- To have an understanding of working within a complex structure both internally and externally
- To have negotiation skills in relation to credit control

**What we will offer in return**
You will support our vision to be the most trusted partner in driving healthier outcomes for people facing mobility challenges. In return, we recognize and value our global employees. You will have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development.

**Why diversity matters to us**
At Arjo, we believe in the power of diversity. We strongly encourage applicants from all parts of society, which means building a more diverse, equitable, inclusive and engaging environment - not only in the workplace, but also within the communities that we serve, work in and live in. We achieve this through a culture and mindset that values the uniqueness of all our people.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dunstable: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Credit Control: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dunstable

Reference ID: 42526