Credit Controller

A company within the leisure industry requires a Credit Controller to join their finance team based in London. The successful candidate will be joining a demanding but highly rewarding environment.

Role Responsibilities -

• Assist Client Partners with collection of outstanding invoices including reviews/meetings, reporting, and chasing of debt.
• Understanding the drivers of Day Sales Outstanding (DSO), our principle metric, and be able to provide detailed analysis of the increases and decreases as required.
• Specific management of wide Client accounts / countries which need assistance.
• Prepare the quarterly review of country commentary of all invoices over 60 days as part of SOX control, and assigning appropriate bad debt provisions at invoice level.
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly reconciliations of Bad Debt Allowance and Unassigned Cash.
• Post cash accurately and in a timely manner for the region including intercompany payments.
• Liaising closely with Billing & Accounts Payable to actively resolve queries, and escalate issues as and when appropriate
• Assisting in the Month End close process from a Credit Control perspective.
• Assist in the assessment of "collectability" for new customers, attributing a credit risk profile and inputting into the basis for revenue recognition.
• Where circumstances dictate, working with our legal team on collection matters.
• Identifying (escalating where necessary) all bad debt write offs for Manager.
• Other ad hoc tasks, as needed.

Candidate Requirements -

• Experience in the above responsibilities
• A self starter
• Excellent communicational skills