Working Capital Controller

**Job details**:
**Location**:Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds Broadgate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, South Coast, Watford

**Capability**:KPMG Business Services

**Experience Level**:Associate/Assistant Manager

**Type**:Full Time

**Service Line**:Business Finance

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Job description**:
With a turnover in excess of £2billion and a payroll of close to 17,000 partners and staff across 22 UK offices, our Finance team covers a huge spectrum of work. It spans everything from being closely involved in supporting the organisation's business strategy to tightly managing critical business functions like employee payroll, expenses, accounts payable and billing.

The role of the Working Capital Controller is to help Engagement Leaders to manage their client portfolio and create maximum efficiency in billing and recovery, which includes ensuring timely management of the lock-up process. The Working Capital team act as trusted advisors to Engagement Leaders with the principle objective of optimising revenue, engagement profitability and speed of cash collection.

**Key Responsibilities**

Acquire a thorough understanding of the business area being supported
To drive, develop and maintain close links with Engagement Leaders and conduct monthly face to face meetings with partners to discuss all WIP and Debtor balances.
Comprehensive follow-up of action items, such as time write off, billing action. This includes follow up of all debt collection discussions
Assist in the execution of credit control framework to ensure debtors to be collected in a timely manner.
Coordination and submission of monthly billing forecast estimates, ensuring that estimates are accurate, reflective of partner conversations and all pledged invoices materialise
Promoting the use of the budgeting tool
Managing Lock Up Days - to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective.
Work closely with Engagement Leaders on credit control issues to unlock debts as quickly as possible. Key examples are influencing Engagement Leaders to follow credit management and commercial policy and normal debt-chasing processes on all their bills, highlighting any queries or disputes where partner intervention is required, highlighting the oldest and/or largest debts
Review aged WIP for working capital hygiene purposes to clear WIP that is no longer recoverable
Play a role in the broader finance community, including active participation in meetings and use of finance wide tools and systems to allow a fluid transfer of knowledge and information

**Qualifications and Experience**

Demonstable Working Capital management experience. Professional services experience is preferred

Pro-active self-starter with drive, enthusiasm and tenacity, possessing excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to communicate to a non-financially literate audience
Will need to be visible with the confidence to advise, encourage, and sometimes challenge Engagement Leaders
Ability to process large amounts of information quickly & be interested in rapid learning
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that helps create, build and maintain strong working relationships.
Able to work well under pressure with respect to meeting targets and deadlines
Good organisational skills, able to multi-task and deal with urgent requests. Possess strong time management skills
Close attention to detail, willingness to take on any task and flexibility in work hours, as necessary, to meet business objectives and requirements.
SAP experience preferred but not essential

**Why KPMG Business Services at KPMG?**:
Every day our firm performs better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. The difference we make shines through to our people and our clients. We’re KPMG Business Services (KBS). We’re a cross-functional team, bringing together experts across a wide range of critical activities which help to grow, run and protect our business. From HR and Learning, Finance, Procurement, Facilities and Operations, through to Risk and Legal, Corporate Affairs, and Market Development, our approach is focused on driving the improved performance of the firm. We work shoulder to shoulder with our client-facing teams and we focus on delivering our services in ways which help to drive efficiency, improve quality and enhance our firm’s brand and reputation.

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