Credit Control Manager
| Posting date: | 07 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £25,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Depending on Experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 December 2024 |
| Location: | SA18 3FE |
| Company: | LBS Builders Merchants |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | LBSG184778 |
Summary
CREDIT CONTROL MANAGER
Location - LBS Head Office, Ammanford
LBS is a well-established and award winning independent Builders Merchants, providing high-quality building materials and excellent customer service to trade and retail customers. With sales in excess of £90m across 40+ sites and a team of 460 people, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and dynamic work environment where employees are encouraged to grow and develop their careers.
The Role:As the Credit Control Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the credit control function, supervising a team of credit controllers, and ensuring that payments are received on time. You will play a critical role in minimising bad debt while maintaining positive customer relationships.
Key Responsibilities to include:- Team management - setting and supervising workloads, conducting staff appraisals/discipinaries, organising & authorising department holidays on our time and attendance system.
- Contacting customers with high level credit limits for payment of overdue accounts
- Monitor customer accounts and manage credit limits to minimise risk.
- General management of the Sales Ledger
- Implement and maintain robust credit control processes and systems.
- Liaise with internal departments, including sales and accounts, to resolve customer queries promptly.
- Prepare and present regular reports on debtor performance and overdue accounts to senior management.
- Proactively manage aged debt and escalate issues to external legal representatives and trade credit insurers when necessary.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to credit control.
- A clear and confident communicator with excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to motivate and develop the credit control team.
- Suggest and introduce measures to reduce risk and improve department productivity.
- Excellent time management and the ability to multitask.
- A confident ability to liaise with customers, other managers, and Directors in the business.
- The ability to speak Welsh would be advantageous.
Why choose LBS?
Some of the benefits of working for us include ; Profit Share Bonus Scheme, Online discount portal including money off retail brands and holidays, Employee Care Helpline and access to a digital GP, staff discount scheme, Death in Service benefit, Private healthcare & formal training and career progression opportunities.
Salary: Negotiable (Dependant on experience)