Credit Controller
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2009 St Augustine of Canterbury High School – 10 GCSEs including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Excel – Pivots / Lookups / Sums
- SAP – daily use
- Various payment portals including Prime Revenue and Insight
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Current Employer – Food manufacture t/o circa £214m
Position – Credit Controller
Dates – 2014 – Present
- Based in the Finance Division in Oldham and works in a team of two reporting to the Transactions Supervisor
- Responsible for maintaining accurate and orderly accounts for multiple customers – domestic and foreign accounts – maintaining good working relationships
- Works with twelve accounts in the UK, two in Canada, one in Australia and one in Dubai
- Works with a full range of stakeholders internal and external to the business across departments and with other teams
- Consults with the Commercial Department and Sales and Technical on a regular basis
- Conducts credit checks on new suppliers into the supply chain
- Responsible for regular chasing – self targeted on aged debt which she maintains at 1%
- Allocates payments daily – working with a variety of terms from fifteen to ninety days and payments made can be from £10k to £1m
- Prepares remit reconciliations daily and resends invoices if overdue – always maintaining precise and accurate records to inform cashflow
- Prepares invoices each day – circa one hundred with values up to £300k
- Responsible for SAP payment reconciliations by downloading and reconciling against remittances
- Runs billing for all customers daily as well as running multiple weekly/monthly reports across SAP, INVU and MS applications
- Ensure the credit notes are updated
- Managing the bad debt inbox – dealing with customers via telephone, email & letter
- Reconciles remittances to keep accounts within payment terms to prevent aged debt
Reason for Leaving: Career Progression
Previous Employer – Chartered Accountants
Position – Administrator /Payroll
Dates – 2011 – 2013
- Started as Office Junior and became Payroller within six months – reporting to the Payroll Supervisor
- Receiving and inputting rates/hours into software and producing payslips
- Set up new employees using P45s
