Head of Billing and Credit Control

Kerv Digital for Digital Transformation; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a seasoned leader to guide their Billing and Credit Control teams through a transformative phase. This senior role will focus on enhancing billing processes, transitioning from manual to automated systems, and managing a high-performing team. You will collaborate closely with the transformation team to implement global strategies and ensure effective cash collection. The ideal candidate will have telecom billing experience and a proven track record in team management and process automation. Join a company that values diversity and promotes an exceptional employee experience while driving continuous improvement in billing practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams through significant change.
• Strong background in system migrations and automating processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Billing and Credit Control teams to ensure timely invoicing.
• Drive changes and improvements in billing processes.

Skills

Telecom's billing experience

Team management

Communication skills

Debt recovery strategies

Process automation

Cashflow forecasting

Education

ACCA/CIMA or similar qualification

Job description

Please note: Hybrid Working 2 days in the Liverpool St. Office, London

About the Role:

This role will be responsible for leading the Billing and Credit Control teams. A successful candidate will ensure the accurate and timely issuance of invoices, as well as working with our transformation team to design and implement global processes across all our practices. There are several practice migrations taking place currently and the successful candidate will have experience in guiding a team to implement the right strategy for success.

The business has gone through a significant deal of change, and we are currently completing several migrations and system overhauls in billing. This role will play a key role in ensuring we move from a manual to automated approach for billing and subsequent collections.

This role reports into the Group Financial Controller. This is a senior position in the team, and you will be expected to be a role model for those you’re managing and a key point of contact within the business.

Your Part to Play:

1. Reviewing and providing an assessment of the current processes in order to create a roadmap to move towards automation and overhaul the current manual processes.
2. Work together with our transformation team to drive changes, implementations, and improvements.
3. Managing a team of credit controllers and billing specialists.
4. Being responsible for the end-to-end billing creation and cash collection process.
5. Business partnering with division account managers to ensure timely billing and post billed collections – manage all stakeholders’ expectations during the billing and collection processes.
6. Ensuring accurate and timely completion of the monthly billing processes – bringing the number of days to complete this process down to facilitate a quicker monthly close overall.
7. Managing cash collections and feeding this into the short-term weekly cashflow.
8. Develop policy and process documents in order for knowledge share to take place across the billing and credit control teams.
9. Manage the customer ticketing service and reduce the number of tickets open at any given time.
10. Be a key point of contact during the audit for billing and credit control support.
11. Driving a culture of continuous improvement and best practice processes.
12. Develop and implement a vision for the billing and credit control teams and track against KPIs that you identify.

All about You:

1. Have Telecom’s billing experience.
2. Have successfully managed a team previously through a significant period of change.
3. A track record of strengthening and retaining a high performing team.
4. Have experience developing and coaching a billing and credit control team, and ensuring the importance of communication between both teams is central to the success of the team.
5. A strong background and previous experience of system migrations and implementations, as well as a track record of success in automating processes that were previously manual.
6. Have excellent knowledge of collections and debt recovery strategies.
7. Be able to demonstrate a downward movement in debt collection balances in previous roles.
8. Have previous treasury management experience linked to predicting future billings, cash collection expectations and taking part in the cashflow forecasting process on a weekly basis.
9. ACCA/CIMA or similar qualification.

You will live the Kerv values:

• Do the Right Thing
• Build Future
• Think Customer First
• Team is everything
• Spread good vibes

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.