European Accounts Receivable Supervisor
- Colnbrook, Berkshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
Lead and develop AR team managing workloads and measuring achievements, debtor days reporting, policy development, and general credit control duties.Credit management – Review and approve credit limits and terms in line with company policy. Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a growing team of credit controllers
- Reduce overdue debt by improving collections times
- Manage daily workloads of the team, including KPI setting
- Point of contact for escalations
- Weekly/Monthly AR reporting
- Credit scoring and reviewing
- Cash flow reporting, for real time insights
- Build relationships with regional operational leaders and Sales team for collaborating on reducing debts and managing credit process
- Involvement in updating and developing credit control policies and procedures
- Ensure 121’s are completed for all team members and ensure regular coaching sessions are delivered
- Review debt recovery procedures and stop the supply of goods and services or flag the need to start the serious process of legal action if a customer has paid late or missed multiple payments
- Ownership of customers at Legal stage
- Other duties and responsibilities will be assigned as business demands deem necessary
- High level certificate in Credit Management or QBE in credit management.
- 5+ years’ applied work experience leading a team of credit controllers and in credit management.
- Excellent leadership and proven people management skills.
- Knowledge of European requirements around debt recovery, processes and governance.
- Extensive knowledge of Accounts receivable and credit control
- Extensive knowledge of Credit control procedures
- Extensive knowledge of debt recovery methods
- Extensive knowledge of measuring AR success
- Knowledge and experience of freight forwarding accounting.
- Basic knowledge of Accounts payable and general accounting
- Good Experience with A/R & A/P contra settlements in local and foreign currencies
- Familiarity with general ledger/month-end close
- Strong understanding of foreign currencies
- Applies fundamental concepts
- Strong PC skills (Windows, Microsoft Office applications) preferred
- CargoWise software ability desirable