Senior Credit Controller

Summary: The Senior Credit Controller role at a successful business in Rochdale involves managing credit and receivable accounts to ensure financial stability and profitability. The position requires establishing credit limits, monitoring credit exposure, and maintaining customer relationships while minimizing bad debt risks. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in credit management and strong analytical and communication skills. This role is integral to the organization's financial health and requires collaboration with sales and customer service teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain credit limits and evaluate the creditworthiness of customers
• Managing credit and receivable accounts to contribute to the organization's overall financial stability and profitability
• Monitoring credit exposure and minimizing bad debt risks at the organization
• Collecting delinquent accounts and applying strategies to encourage timely payments
• Maintaining positive relationships with customers, while effectively mitigating credit risks and ensuring timely collections
• Coordinating with sales and customer service to handle all credit-related matters appropriately
• Monitor and manage the credit control processes, adhering to company policies and procedures
• Manage 350 live customer accounts in varying ageing categories
• Evaluate and assess the creditworthiness of customers through financial analysis, credit checks and payment history review
• Monitor customer accounts to ensure timely payments and address any payment delays or discrepancies promptly
• Generate regular reports on accounts receivable, collections and credit risk to management, highlighting areas of concern or improvement opportunities

Key Skills:

• 3 years + experience in managing credit and accounts receivable
• Good analytical skills, ability to evaluate financial information, perform risk assessments and make informed credit decisions
• Good knowledge of Excel
• Amazing communication skills, with the ability to rapport and effectively resolve conflicts
• Experience reducing debt
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Be able to interact with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Strong time management and organisational skills
• Prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
• Experience in instructing debt collection agencies

Salary (Rate): £30,000 yearly

City: Rochdale

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Axon Moore are proud to work with a successful business based in the Rochdale area.

We are looking for someone to take on a Senior Credit Controller role and join an amazing team

Objectives:

• Establish and maintain credit limits and evaluate the creditworthiness of customers
• Managing credit and receivable accounts to contributed to the organisations overall financial stability and profitability
• Monitoring credit exposure and minimising bad debt risks at the organisation
• Collecting delinquent accounts and applying strategies to encourage timely payments
• Maintaining positive relationships with customers, while effectively mitigating credit risks and ensuring timely collections
• Coordinating with sales and customer service to handle all credit-related matters appropriately

Duties:

• Monitor and manage the credit control processes, adhering to company policies and procedures
• Manage 350 live customer accounts in varying ageing categories
• Evaluate and assess the creditworthiness of customers through financial analysis, credit checks and payment history review
• Monitor customer accounts to ensure timely payments and address any payment delays or discrepancies promptly
• Generate regular reports on accounts receivable, collections and credit risk to management, highlighting areas of concern or improvement opportunities

Required skills and quals:

• 3 years + experience in managing credit and accounts receivable
• Good analytical skills, ability to evaluate financial information, perform risk assessments and make informed credit decisions
• Good knowledge of Excel
• Amazing communication skills, with the ability to rapport and effectively resolve conflicts

Preferred skills and quals:

• Experience reducing debt
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Be able to interact with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Strong time management and organisational skills
• Prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
• Experience in instructing debt collection agencies