The Role
Credit Control
Dublin West - Permanent
Salary: €25-30K
Start Date: September / October 2017
My client is seeking to appoint an experienced Credit Controller on a permanent basis.
The successful candidate will need to have a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in a similar role.
Strong systems and Excel skills would be a distinct advantage
Key Responsibilities:
- Chasing debt by telephone and email
- Allocating payments in accordance with customer remittances.
- Reconcile VIS and cash transactions
- Processing and generating monthly statements and reminder letters if necessary.
- Liaising with the customer service and accounts teams to resolve outstanding queries.
- Ensuring that all major accounts operate within agreed terms.
- Daily and month end reporting and account reconciliations.
- Investigating and resolving queries in an efficient and timely manner.
- Working to strict weekly, monthly and annually collections targets.
- Reducing debtor days and working capital requirement.
- Liaising with the finance department re bank reconciliation, management accounts and annual accounts functions.
- Provide accurate and timely status reports e.g.: cash forecasts
The Person
Key Skills:
- Must have at least 2-3 years’ experience in credit control
- Excellent communications skills / ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels
- Negotiating /calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations
- Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail / create, collect and research information/data.
- Competence in Microsoft Office and accounting software programmes
- Strong people management skills, demonstrate effective leadership.
- Ability to meet deadlines / prioritise and plans work activities, use time efficiently, set goals and objectives.
- Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner and gather and analyse information accurately, develops alternative solutions if/where applicable.
- Display willingness to make decisions on own initiative, display sound and accurate judgment, support and explain reasoning for decisions, include appropriate people in decision-making process, make timely decisions.
For more information on this role, please contact Damian Ryan
Tel: 045-988500