Credit Controller (German speaking)

BDO UK; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UK is seeking a proactive individual for a credit control role to manage debt portfolios and interact with stakeholders. The successful candidate will showcase fluency in German and excel in communication, alongside the opportunity for career development within a supportive team culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in Finance and/or Credit Control.
• Supervisory experience beneficial.
• Confident presenting to management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct meetings with stakeholders regarding debt portfolios.
• Monitor queries and escalate when necessary.
• Prepare financial summary reports.

Skills

Fluency in German

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Excel skills

Tools

Workday

Job description

We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We'll broaden your horizons

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate - like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you'll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you'll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

In this challenging and rewarding role you'll:

Conduct regular face-to-face meetings with stakeholders regarding their debt portfolios

Monitor queries and disputes, ensure the appropriate escalation

Ensure consistent application of the firm's debt provisioning policy

Ensure that the debtors ledger contains minimal adjustments and where appropriate that overpayments or payments on account are properly returned, applied or cleared

Ensure that there are minimal unallocated cash receipts

Enforce consistent BDO credit control procedures

Review and analyse aged debt against defined metrics

Actively chase all overdue debt within the allotted portfolio and update Partners/Managers as appropriate

Maintain accurate and up to date client notes following conversations with clients, using Workday to record status

Prepare daily / weekly / monthly summary reports

Identify problem debts that require escalation and liaise with Credit Control Manager as appropriate

Where necessary, engage and manage the process of debts that need to go legal

Ensure that bills raised are sent out to clients in a timely manner

Work with the accounts receivable team in respect of cash receipts and remittance details to aid effective and accurate allocation

Ongoing liaison with other credit controllers across the Firm as required (including attending monthly conference calls)

Ensure that credit notes are processed correctly, monitoring reasons for credit notes being raised

Provide client base with monthly statements of account as appropriate

Prepare manual excel template statements when required

Produce copy bills or summary backup if required for clients

Requirements

• Fluency in German. French and Spanish would be an additional advantage

Workday experience would be preferred.

Finance and/or Credit Control background.

Excel skills to a competent level.

Supervisory experience of a team.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present confidently and convincingly to management

Strong interpersonal skills with ability to both motivate individuals and deal professionally with performance issues

Commitment to delivering exceptional client service to internal and external stakeholders

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.