Credit Control & Accounts Receivable

Roles and Responsibilities: How the Expected Outcomes are Achieved

• Work with PM's and other personnel responsible for billing to resolve customer issues re billing
• Check and process sales invoices, ensuring correct referencing to PO's, jobs and that the correct VAT scheme applied
• Processing of Applications, Certificates and invoices on larger Contracts
• Maintain robust records of retention withheld and work with Commercial Team to ensure collection and reconciliation
• Continuously check client/customer credit status and act upon changes where necessary
• Upload invoices to various client portals
• Assist and support with client/customer repayment plan negotiations 
• Create, implement and monitor an effect cash collection process and compile accurate reports for SMT as required
• Create, implement and monitor client/customer payments and ensure they are within agreed business terms
• Ensure client/customer account reconciliations are tracked, accurate and reportable
• Maintain accurate up to date records on all revenue, debt and cash positions
• Feed into cashflow process daily with actuals and forecasts
• Produce meaningful reports for Management Information such as debtor days etc
• Working closely with other departments to ensure smooth day to day running of the business
• Lead on construction industry VAT and become internal VAT Champion
• Filing, scanning and archiving into SharePoint and E-Vision and other finance systems
• Any other reasonable administrative and ad-hoc duties as requested by Line Manager
• Assist other members of the finance team as and when required

Requirements for the Role:

• Full time office based
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• GCSE Maths and English at A*- C or equivalent to Level 2 functional skills
• Recognises commercially sensitive or confidential information and deals with it appropriately
• Excellent people skills, with a track record of effective engagement with colleagues and stakeholders
• Flexible to undertake a range of different tasks within the working day
• Experience in working to deadlines and prioritising own workload
• Experience in using Microsoft Office package, in particular  Word and Excel to an advanced level
• Willing to take responsibility and accountability to follow tasks through to completion
• Excellent organisational skills and diligence
• Construction Industry experience
• Previous experience of working with the CIS scheme and relevant VAT schemes

Company Benefits:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays  

- After 2 years continuous service, 1 extra day’s leaver per year up to a maximum of 5

- Long Service Awards

- Training and Development opportunities

- Pension Scheme

- Optical Eye Care Vouchers

- Death in Service

- Health Care

- Birthday Day Off