Credit Control Assistant

A specialist law firm is looking for a Credit Control Assistant to work alongside the Credit Control Supervisor within the finance department. You will ideally have had experience in credit control in a professional environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing the outstanding sales balances falling due and ensuring payment of outstanding invoices by appropriate use of e-mail, letter and telephone contact with our clients
• Sending out of statements of accounts to our clients
• Recording all communications made with clients
• Sending out copy invoices to clients
• Liaising internally with fee earners and the Electronic Invoicing Systems Administrator to progress any problems regarding invoice delivery and/or payment
• Daily banking of cheques (when received) and manage the Barclaycard merchant services account
• Posting receipts on to our IPT system and allocating the payments to outstanding invoices.
• General sales ledger administration to ensure our client records are kept up to date.
• Maintain the Sterling, US$ and Euro cashbooks
• On-boarding new clients to include financial risk assessment, AML, terms of business and client engagement letters
• Regularly meet and discuss with the Credit Control Supervisor and Financial Controller the position on new clients, debtors, cash collections against targets and any related issues

Key requirements:

• IT literate - must be comfortable working with new IT systems
• Minimum of 2 years' experience working in a similar role in a professional services firm
• Diligent, attention to detail
• Methodical approach to work
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactive approach to problem solving
• Ability to prioritise workload and work under pressure
• Team Player
• Flexible