Credit Controller - London, United Kingdom - BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

CREDIT CONTROLLER (BIRMINGHAM - CLIENT FINANCE) (

JOB NUMBER:
BHM586)

The Role
The Credit Controller is responsible for managing the recovery of monies from Occupiers on behalf of Client(s).

The objective of the role is to:

Ensure demands are raised, arrears are collected (and where relevant tax receipts are issued) on behalf of Client(s) in accordance with the Clients' debt recovery policies;
Working within the debt recovery strategy and operating within contractual compliance, including performing within the SLAs and KPIs on behalf of BNPPRE;
Working with surveyors, clients and other team members on the most appropriate actions to recover debts and managing escalation of debt recovery through third party specialists or client specific procedures;
Maintaining complete and up to date records of actions to settle arrears and monitoring and reporting on collection performance; and
Assisting in continuously improving processes for arrears collection to ensure monies are collected in an efficient manner in accordance with all relevant legislation.
Processes
Processes

are seen as essential to the operations of the team, department and wider internal stakeholders.

It is key that this role will:

Develop, implement and continuously improve processes and procedures to ensure service delivery standards for internal and external clients are met;
Work with internal audit and compliance to ensure that all compliance and control requirements are met; and
Participate in controls of activities.

Service Delivery

The Client Finance department is a critical part of service delivery to many of the BNP Paribas Clients and the Credit Control function is considered to be market leading.

It is key that this role will:

Work with the management team to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and control of their daytoday work;
Liaise with the Credit Control Manager/Assistant Manager, team members, surveyors, client accountants and Clients to ensure that debt collection issues are resolved in a timely manner, and that risks of nonrecovery are reported and mitigated;
Ensure accurate and complete records of debtor payment performance, conversations and actions agreed are maintained and that payment reminders are issued to poor payers;
Ensure arrears are collected on behalf of clients in accordance with clients' debt recovery policies for the methods and timescales to be employed in escalating recoveries;
Provide ad hoc and monthly credit control reports and aged debtor analyses;
Ensure that all tenant queries are actioned within 24 hours, liaising with surveyors and client accountants as required;
Actioning Client voids along with the Client Accountants to ensure recovery of monies from Clients are appropriate;
Identify and clear unallocated cash; and
Maintain records of any tenant disputes and/or complaints and manage their resolution in conjunction with the surveyor and client accountant responsible.

Responsibilities
Financials

Individual and team based targets; and
Assists the manager to manage within budget and minimise overhead spend.

Clients and Business Development

Manages existing Client relationships;
Able to work on a broad range of projects, referring to senior colleagues/ external specialists on highly unusual or technical issues;
Specialist in one aspect of own discipline. Broad knowledge of principles and practices of related disciplines; and
Enhances BNP Paribas Real Estate's reputation through successful delivery.

Systems and Process

Evaluates, adapts and improves standards, techniques and procedures; and
Participates in the selection, testing and implementation of new systems features to support credit control operations and is a contributor to BNP Paribas Real Estate projects.

Person specification

Must be highly numerate and accurate, with a strong attention to detail;
Experience of working within a credit control / rent collection team within in a property management or similar environment. Qualification or part qualification in credit control and debt management or a related accounting discipline is preferred;
Tenacious, presentable, assertive, adaptable, selfaware and selfmotivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills and a professional telephone manner;
Conscientious and highly focussed, with an understanding of credit control and debt collection procedures and an appreciation of data protection issues;
Understanding of accounting techniques, including sales ledger transactions would be an advantage;
Committed to the provision of excellent customer service and to meeting deadlines;
Commercially astute, innovative and solutions oriented;
Organised and methodical, able to work to tight deadlines and manage time effectively; an
Good skills in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, and Outlook).
Experience of property management and accounting packages for managing agents (ideally Trace Tramp