Sales Ledger Manager

Axon Moore are looking for a Sales Ledger Manager (Billing and Credit) for a 12 month FTC, working for a well-established, successful PLC based in the Lancashire area. 

The role of the Sales Ledger Manager incorporates full accountability for the sales ledger function across the UK Retail business units.  You will be leading a rapidly growing Sales Ledger department, managing team leaders and team members across both invoicing and credit control. The team is currently 13 people strong, looking after a portfolio of c.600 clients.

As Sales Ledger Manager you will be responsible for the leadership and development of 2 direct reports, and will be expected to maintain high levels of engagement and nurture a high performing culture across the whole team.  Experience of managing a high-volume transactional team is essential along with driving performance through KPI’s.

Duties:

• Driving transformation and process improvement across invoicing and credit control processes and within the wider operations
• Overall responsibility for debtor’s ledger and month end processes, taking full accountability for performance and credit risk management
• Building strong relationships across the business to offer value added business partnering to improve the customer journey and reduce debt
• Robust due diligence when on boarding new customers & the continued review of customers against credit limits to mitigate risk
• Establish and maintain robust KPI’s across the Sales Ledger activities to manage the performance and identify areas for improvements
• Production of management information & KPI reporting to the wider business on team performance and risk
• Objective setting and ongoing performance management of direct reports and driving robust performance management across the team
• Development of two direct reports and the wider team’s skills
• Support the business unit in new customer tenders, customer onboarding and any other ad hoc projects as required

Person Specification:

We are looking for someone with the drive and experience to establish and improve processes and systems to deliver efficiency and excellent customer service across all aspects of the sales ledger activities to support ongoing growth.   We aim to introduce automation to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the invoicing to our clients as well as develop our Credit Control and query management processes to reduce our debtor days and deliver improved customer service.  Experience of implementing new sales ledger systems would also be a real advantage as we are embarking upon an ERP transformation project.

• Experienced in a management role in Sales Ledger / Billing and Credit. We will consider candidates from an AP background with a knowledge of Credit / Billing.
• From a big company, ideally shared service background
• A robust people manager with experience in the management, coaching and development of a large team
• Strong Excel skills
• CCIM qualifications an advantage

 Please send a CV for immediate consideration.