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

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