Role Title: Senior Credit Executive
Location: Upper Queen St, Belfast
Contract: Initial 5 months (November)
A new requirement has arisen on a temporary basis to join a leading organisation based in Belfast as a Senior Credit Executive. This would be an excellent opportunity for someone with previous experience in a credit control role, who has proven ability to deliver consistent quality results in a target driven fast paced environment within a truly global organisation.
Functional Capabilities
- Pro-active debt management to maximise cash conversion.
- Actively minimise risk using external financial tools and rigorous review.
- Develop collaborative relationships with commercial teams
- Deliver against agreed credit KPIs which underpin the strategy
- Ensure the accuracy and completeness of customer master data used to support debt management, accurate financial reporting and any necessary recovery processes.
- Compliance with all legislative and policy requirements, including CARM, Credit and AML
Top Outcomes
Own end to end account management of customers in line with the credit policy, including
- Decide and set credit terms, risk categorisation and credit limits for each customer
- Regularly review data integrity and payment performance
Responsible for minimising the risk of debt by:
- Prompt follow up of failed or missed payments
- Apply course corrective action when needed
- Create and pro-active manage risk based watch lists
- Correspond with customers with overdue debt, rapid follow up to ensure maximum monies recovered, including repayment plans, or referral to recovery department
Timely response regarding queries received from commercial and customers.
Weekly and monthly reporting against key performance targets - overdue debt, underlying debt, cash to terms and on time cash collection.
Other key deliverables as required by the business within Credit.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- 5 GCSE grade A-C including Maths and English minimum
- A post leaving qualification in a business related or credit discipline would be advantageous.
- At least 3 years Credit Control experience
- Proven ability to deliver consistent quality results in a target driven fast paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong systems capability, preferably SAP
- Microsoft Office experience would be advantageous
- Ability to influence stakeholders cross functionally in a customer and commercial facing role would be desirable
Guidant is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
