Credit Control Team Leader

Sewell Moorhouse Recruitment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment company is seeking an experienced Credit Control Team Leader to join their dynamic team in Leeds. Key responsibilities include supervising credit controllers, managing debt recovery processes, and ensuring effective communication with clients and management. The role offers opportunities for growth within a supportive environment, hybrid working options, and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Modern offices

Study support

Working for an industry leader

Qualifications

• Experience in credit control with a focus on reducing aged debt.
• Experience overseeing a team and guiding members effectively.

Responsibilities

• Supervising a team of credit controllers and managing multiple ledgers.
• Reviewing aged debt and leading efforts to recover outstanding monies.
• Preparing monthly reports and engaging with managers on debt status.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Credit control knowledge

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Prioritization skills

Job description

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for an experienced Credit Control Team Leader to join a well-established company based in Leeds City Centre. This is a great opportunity to join this West Yorkshire business, where you can really grow with the business and develop and progress, long term wise.

In this Credit Controller Team Leader role, you will be responsible for overseeing the credit control team, ensuring the efficient collection of outstanding monies, and maintaining strong working relationships with business clients by delivering excellent customer service. You will also play a key role in supporting your team providing guidance, resolving queries, and helping them navigate challenges to ensure they perform at their best.

What will you be doing?

• Supervising a team of credit controllers
• Reviewing and analysing aged debt and making high volumes of calls to recover monies.
• Managing multiple ledgers.
• Preparing monthly ledger reports.
• Payment handling.
• Ensuring that credit notes are processed correctly, monitoring reasons for credit notes being raised.
• Identifying problem debts that require escalation and liaising with the Credit Control Manager as appropriate.
• Allocating cash.
• Reconciling accounts.
• Maintaining relationships with both colleagues and clients.
• Actively engaging, on a monthly basis, with managers and partners on debt status and preparing monthly summary reports.

What skills are we looking for?

• Have previous supervisory experience.
• Have experience of working within credit control and will have proven experience of reducing aged debt.
• Have experience of working within a fast-paced environment.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Be able to communicate at all levels and be able to liaise with managers and clients.
• Be able to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines.

What's on offer?

• Modern offices.
• Study support.
• Working for an industry leader.
• Hybrid working model.

For further details please contact Suliman Mahmood

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.