Accounts Receivable Credit Controller - 18 Months Fixed-Term Contract

RS Group; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life assurance

Medical plans

Holiday allowance

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

RS Group in the United Kingdom is seeking an Accounts Receivable professional for a hybrid role based in Corby. The 18-month fixed-term contract focuses on cash collection, aged debt reduction, and performance against DSO targets in line with policy.

You will work with the UK Accounts Receivable team to resolve debtor queries, review ledgers, correct misposted payments, and provide up-to-date balance information to managers. You will manage disputes and support potential legal actions if needed.

Qualifications

• Language skills would be an advantage.
• Highly motivated and target driven to achieve bad debt and DSO targets.
• Ability to proactively identify and prevent potential bad debts.
• A logical approach to troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems (technical and non- technical challenges within Accounts Receivable).
• Demonstrate the ability or have experience working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Adhere to and operate within the agreed levels of authority.
• Seek continuous service improvement opportunities.
• Ability to maintain documentation & controls so that there are no major issues during audit.
• Taking full ownership of resolving problems.

Responsibilities

• Work together with the UK Accounts Receivable Team to deliver Cash, Debtor and DSO targets.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve debtor relates queries.
• Review the debtors' ledgers on a regular basis for unallocated/mis posted payments, ensuring these are corrected in a timely manner.
• Provide reliable, accurate and up to date information of debtor's balances, and demonstrate visibility of progress to managers.
• Record and manage disputes & contribute to the resolution and closure.
• Recognise any irrecoverable debts and assist with legal action.
• Monitor e-mail inbox, ensuring all relevant e-mails are actioned in a timely manner.

Job description

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby office.

Contract Type: 18 months fixed-term contract

The Opportunity

Responsible for supporting our Accounts Receivable activities within UK Customer Market Sector, in order to achieve Cash Collection, Aged Debt and DSO targets in line with RS Group Credit Policy and procedures. Ensuring cash collection activities are performed and aged debt reduction targets are delivered while adhering to credit management policies.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work together with the UK Accounts Receivable Team to deliver Cash, Debtor and DSO targets.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve debtor relates queries.
• Review the debtors' ledgers on a regular basis for unallocated/mis posted payments, ensuring these are corrected in a timely manner.
• Provide reliable, accurate and up to date information of debtor's balances, and demonstrate visibility of progress to managers.
• Record and manage disputes & contribute to the resolution and closure.
• Recognise any irrecoverable debts and assist with legal action.
• Monitor e-mail inbox, ensuring all relevant e-mails are actioned in a timely manner.

What You’ll Bring

• Language skills would be an advantage.
• Highly motivated and target driven to achieve bad debt and DSO targets.
• Ability to proactively identify and prevent potential bad debts.
• A logical approach to troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems (technical and non- technical challenges within Accounts Receivable).
• Demonstrate the ability or have experience working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Adhere to and operate within the agreed levels of authority.
• Seek continuous service improvement opportunities.
• Ability to maintain documentation & controls so that there are no major issues during audit.
• Taking full ownership of resolving problems.

We Are RS

We've been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we're a trusted partner to the world's leading industries.

We're looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

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