Credit Controller

**JOB PURPOSE**:
The credit controller ensures the company receives money from businesses and customer for services or products supplied.

**MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Collection of all customer debt within company payment terms and in line with company procedures
- Manage cash sales
- Post and reconcile customer payments daily
- Customer Master File maintenance
- Alert Head of Finance at earliest opportunity of any possibility of bad/doubtful debt, issues arising with customer accounts
- Liaise with internal colleagues to resolve queries and assess credit worthiness of new and existing customers
- Manage and report on overtrading accounts
- Manage the ON STOP procedure
- Prepare and present credit control position at monthly credit control meeting
- Take responsibility for reconciliation and integrity of the sales ledger
- Investigation and resolution of queries, correction of errors and differences
- To build sound relationships with customers and internal colleagues
- To meet accounting deadlines, in order to achieve the company’s reporting requirements
- Assist the accounts team whenever required

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:

- Friendly and approachable, a team player who will go the extra mile
- Communicates well, and able to develop relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders
- Experience of working in a busy accounts team
- Capable of planning their work to achieve strict deadlines
- Highly accurate, and can demonstrate attention to detail
- Flexible and adaptable to changing demands and procedures
- IT literate especially in Accounting Software & Microsoft Office particularly Excel

**Salary**: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Stowmarket, IP14 2ED: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- accounting: 3 years (preferred)
- credit control: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Credit Control