Credit Controller

Job Introduction
**What is the role and what’s in it for me?**

DAC Beachcroft are looking to hire an experienced Credit Controller into our Finance Team.

As a forward thinking firm, we offer hybrid working as standard for this role, meaning you will be required in the office 2/3 days per week and can work the rest from home. Of course, if you’d like to be in the office 5 days a week, this is also something we would support.

Main Responsibilities
The Credit Controller will undertake the following key responsibilities;
- Regular contact with Partners, Clients and fee-earners regarding their debt
- Dealing with queries in-line with the ISO27001 requirements (both internal and external)
- Use I4G software to manage your ledger - logging notes, queries and diary entries
- Frequent liaison with other teams within the Finance department
- Monthly and ad-hoc meetings with management to discuss progress and problematic issues
- Occasional travel to other offices and mínimal client visits
- Follow the firms' collection procedure
- Understand & manage the clients and Partners requirements
- Seek collections which ensure cash collection targets are met
- Confident in own ability and able to look for a resolution prior to escalating
- Handle confidential information in line with the firms' data security protocols
- Collating missing data relevant to the payment of our bills - including cleansing existing data
- Liaising with accounts to provide and receive information to ensure data accuracy
- Take responsibility for monthly management information, provided both internally and externally
- Regular contact with the Sales Ledger Department to ensure allocations are found promptly and accurately
- Handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols

You will be able to demonstrate the following key skills and attributes;
- Extensive credit control experience
- Insurance knowledge/collections experience would be advantageous
- Previous Legal or Professional Services experience
- Experience of elite, I4G and / or similar legal accounting systems would be an advantage but not essential
- A tenacious personality able to handle sometimes difficult phone calls and meetings
- Lateral thinker with the ability to generate creative solutions to complex problems
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to manage high work-loads
- A team player but able to use own initiative
- IT literate with ability to pick up new systems quickly
- Flexible with a positive 'can do' attitude
- Good level of numeracy
- Good level of spelling and grammar
- Proven track record in reducing debtor days in a busy, sometimes pressured environment

About The Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards - the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

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