Underwriting and Legal Associate

3 days ago

Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom Screwfix Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Underwriting and Legal Assistant to join our Trade UK team at Screwfix. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the management of existing customers' debt, ensuring we onboard new business in the right way while managing risk.

About the Role

  1. Work closely with customers, stores, and B2B teams to build relationships, support new applications, credit limit increases, and other general account queries.
  2. Provide advice and guidance on credit applications and risk in accordance with our credit policy. Support new credit applications & increases in line with our policy and put forward recommendations to the Trade Credit Underwriting and Legal Specialist.
  3. Obtain and evaluate customer information from various financial agencies for the purposes of assessing credit risk and worthiness.
  4. Investigate suspected fraud matters – work with Trade UK and our loss prevention teams at pace to identify potential fraud and assist with wider fraud prevention strategies.
  5. Liaise with our stores and delivery partners where we have disputes, manage reporting, and ensure we maintain our high levels of recovery.
  6. Support with producing internal reporting on account performance, aged debt, forecasting, and KPI's.
  7. Prepare accounts for legal action and provide instructions to our legal collection partners throughout the collection and recovery process.
  8. Support on projects and initiatives that improve existing processes and the customer journey.
  9. Ensure all standard operating procedures are complete and updated annually.
  10. Ensure compliance with Group Financial Reporting Manual and Screwfix internal controls.
  11. Identify process improvement opportunities as part of Screwfix Smart Working.

Requirements

  • Experience of working with credit limits (under writing / credit vetting), or accounts receivable would be advantageous.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively across the business and with third parties.
  • Intermediate Excel skills as a minimum.
  • Financial acumen - ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data to guide decisions, with attention to detail.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics or Coda would be advantageous.
  • Ability to develop solutions to problems and identify process improvement opportunities.

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