Credit Control Assistant - Burgess Hill, United Kingdom - First Recruitment Services Limited

First Recruitment Services Limited

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Burgess Hill, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Credit Controller / Accounts Assistant

Full time permanent role

Mon-Fri 40 hours per week - during standard office hours

Burgess Hill area - office based role.

Due to rural workplace location it is essential to be a driver and have your own transport - plenty of free parking available on site.

Beautiful countryside office location.

Salary:
£26000-£28000 per year plus very good company benefits.

Excellent opportunity to join a very stable, secure and highly established business as they seek to recruit an additional permanent credit control / accounts assistant to join their friendly team.

This role is approx 80% credit control based and around 20%general accounts based.

The role:

As a member of a three person finance team the main responsibility of the role is to implement and manage all the credit control processes from invoice generation to ensuring collection of monies from customers within trading terms.

The role also involvessome general accounting duties in support of the purchase and nominal ledgers.

My client aims to ensure that their customers are delighted with their service and a polite, effective credit control function is an important part of the customer experience.

Essential Experience/ Skills / Competencies

Excellent telephone manner
Excellent communication skills
Attention to detail
Willing to learn
Process driven
Works well as a team player
Comfortable completing tasks at all levels
Good computer skills
Previous credit control experience
Previous accounts experience

Duties and responsibilities:

Sales ledger invoicing is up to date in order to ensure timely customer billing
Sales ledger incoming payments are up to date in order to ensure accurate debtor reporting.
Action credit control procedures in order to keep debtor days as low as possible.
Sending statements and reminder letters to customers.
Calling overdue customers to establish any reason for non payment and/or payment date.
Managing process of putting customer accounts on stop and liaising with debt collection agency when necessary
Dealing with customer invoice queries.
Maintain sales ledger to ensure accurate debtor reporting
Bank reconciliations
Processing of supplier invoices
Supplier statement reconciliations

This is an excellent local opportunity to work within a highly established business with a great reputation for providing a secure, stable and friendly working environment.

First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.