Do you have experience as a Credit Controller role? Are you looking for a new challenge in the legal sector? If so, then we want to hear from you!
We can offer you:
- A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work
- The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly colleagues who all want to help you thrive
- A competitive package with great benefits
- A great opportunity to learn from a talented team of finance professionals
The opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced Credit Controller to join our friendly, busy Finance team to provide a professional and quality service in support of our Debt & Asset Recovery business.
The Debt & Asset Recovery team are one of the firms high volume teams and are rapidly growing, requiring their own Credit Control support. This role will enable you to integrate and be a pivotal member of an exciting team, supporting and assisting in their future growth.
Your key duties will be:
- Ownership of all Debt & Asset Recovery accounts
- Reconciling draft bills to pre-approved status ensuring accuracy at all times
- ebilling – Uploading invoices on to client portals and following up to receipt of payment
- Regular reporting analysis to be provided to the LS&DR Commercial Manager & Credit Manager
- Minimise overdue debt and achieve set monthly cash collection targets
- Providing technical input, support and expertise into investigation, negotiation and settlement of debts
- Working closely with stakeholders to review outstanding debt
- Utilising excel to produce any analysis, data or reporting (including pivot tables and vlookup’s)
Skills and experience you will have:
- Previous experience in a Credit Collection role preferably within the legal sector.
- Strong understanding of multi matter billing
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with both internal and external stakeholders
- Analytical and highly organised
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationship to positively influence internal and external stakeholders
- Commercially focused with good business acumen
- Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
- Ability to prioritise in an ever changing workload in a deadline driven environment
- Solutions focused approach
- Strong Excel skills (to include experience of pivot tables and vlookups) with the ability to manipulate data and present it well
How we work:
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will a blend of working from home and our Birmingham office; however, some travel to our other office hubs may be required on an ad hoc basis.
About us:
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
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