Job title: Credit Controller

Department: Finance

Location: Peterborough

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Hybrid working

Salary: £23,500 – £25,000

We’re looking for a Credit Controller to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.

Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Primary responsibility for chasing the debts of the companies’ debtors along with building and maintaining relationships with customers. There will also be a requirement to assist in other finance duties when time permits.

Key responsibilities

• Chasing customers for payment to ensure agreed payment terms are adhered too and collections targets are met.

• Creating new customer accounts on sage prior to the account going live.

• Completing credit checks on all new customer accounts and providing recommendations on credit limits to the finance team leader.

• Accurately reconciling customer payments on sage upon receipt of payment

• Dealing with customer queries until resolution in an accurate and timely manner.

• Preparing monthly supplier payment schedules

• Dealing with supplier queries in a prompt and timely manner.

• Processing both supplier and customer invoices

Skills and experience

• Sage 50 experience and knowledge

• Excellent Oral and written communication skills

• Maintaining confidentiality and recognising the sensitivity of information

• Identifying and implementing ways of improving service provision and processes

• Making decisions by collaborating with the team

• Generating practical solutions to problems

• Persistence in finding a solution

• Analysing diverse information quickly and accurately

• Identifying trends

• Excellent attention to Detail

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

• Life assurance: three times basic salary

• Free breakfasts and fruit

• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you’re at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we’ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone’s bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.