Credit Control Assistant

**CREDIT CONTROL ASSISTANT / REDHILL / COMPETITIVE PAY + BENEFITS**

Do you have experience within Credit Control? Looking for an exciting new challenge, where your hard work will be rewarded? If so, this exciting new **Credit Control Assistant** opportunity could be your dream role

**Rapiscan Systems** is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling,illegal immigration, and trade fraud.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced **Credit Control Assistant** to join our growing Finance Department. You will engage in regular credit control activities, with a specific focus on processing and completing letters of credit, guaranteesand related finance export documents. Specific training will be provided for the role.

**What’s on Offer?**
- Competitive salary
- Pension plan
- Opportunity to join a leading, trusted organisation
- Excellent working environment

**Key Responsibilities of the Credit Control Assistant**:

- Reconcile and manage selected customer accounts, resolve queries and arrange offsets as applicable
- Work with accounts Payable staff to ensure offset transactions are properly booked & reconciled
- Negotiate letters of credit, checking all information thoroughly to ensure there are no errors and what is presented is evaluated and validated correctly in the interests of the company and its policies
- Chase customers for payment by any appropriate means
- Resolve queries with customers
- Issue customer statements
- Maintain customer contact records
- Carry out credit checks on customers
- Participate in activities related to SOX and external audit controls
- Raise customer invoices, credit notes, pro forma and/or inter-company debit notes

**Skills & Experience Required**:

- Previous experience in similar Credit Control position
- Demonstrate an aptitude for business process management, definition and improvement activities.
- Self-motivated, ambitious, keen to learn, and make efficiency improvements to processes.
- Able to work with others and coordinate activities across multiple departments, separate companies, countries and time zones that result in issues being effectively resolved.
- Able to present information clearly, concisely; informally and to larger audiences.
- Skilled in the use of Microsoft Excel and Word and able to perform analyses - essential
- Knowledge of double entry bookkeeping - an advantage
- Skilled in the use of ERP systems - Navision an advantage

**What’s Next?**

If you have the skillset and experience to be successful in this brand-new **Credit Control Assistant** position, we want to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.