Job Description
We have an excellent opportunity for a Head of Credit Control at ourhead office in Wakefield.
Reporting into the Finance Director, the Head of Credit Control is responsible for credit management, aged debt reporting, and maintaining appropriate credit control policies to help maximise collections and minimise Sharp UK’s bad debt risk. Leading multi-site Credit Control teams and responsible for the management of cash receipts, bank accounts, and credit insurance requirements to ensure all debts are appropriately insured in line with group guidelines and credit insurers terms of business.
Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.
Travel to other sites is required and a driving license is essential.
We offer flexible hybrid working, with a minimum of 3 days in the office.
Main responsibilities:
- coach and develop multi-site Credit Control teams across Sharp UK.
- and maintaining appropriate credit control policies across Sharp UK, resolving and bringing material credit concerns to senior management attention.
- internal and external audits, ensuring appropriate internal controls within the Credit Control department
- and managing aged debts and potential bad debts, providing reports and analysis to Finance in line with Sharp Group requirements.
- aged debts percentage, monthly collections and the provisions required for bad debts.
- proactively with other teams to ensure early resolution of queries and overdue debts.
- appropriate credit insurance cover is in place for all debts where appropriate.
- up and manage appropriate credit insurance requirement to manage credit risk in line with Sharp UK’s risk appetite.
- the banking and collections arrangements, ensuring cash receipts and bank accounts are maintained, reconciled, and posted accurately and on time.
- cash collections on a timely basis including continuous improvements in line with the payments industry.
- cash targets are met whilst improving processes to ensure maximum and timely cash collections.
Requirements:
Experienced Credit Control Manager with CICM qualification or qualified by experience.
- knowledge of appropriate credit management procedures
- knowledge of credit insurance requirements.
- with continuous improvement of the credit control function.
- experience and experience in Corporate Group is very helpful.
- staff management skills, able to lead, inspire and develop teams.
- player, adept at communicating with and influencing departmental managers and directors.
- in liaising with senior management.
- organisational & analytical skills with a good knowledge of Microsoft applications
- system experience is highly desirable or other comparable ERP systems.
- and able to travel to various UK sites as required.
About Sharp Business Systems UK Plc
Sharp Business Systems provide innovative Document Solutions, Visual Solutions, Managed Solutions and IT services.
By providing excellent pre-sales advice and supplying innovative, state-of-the-art solutions, which we support with outstanding service, we deliver very high levels of customer satisfaction.
We have thousands of customers who have been with us for many years and are happy to turn to us time and time again for new products, solutions and services; our relationships are testament to the quality of the customer service we provide.
As part of the globally recognised and trusted Sharp Corporation, we are at the forefront of technical innovation. Our success and longevity in an ever-changing industry is entirely due to the application of a time-honoured ethos, delivered consistently by longstanding, experienced staff justifiably proud of the high levels of account management and after sales service that we provide.