Credit Control Team Leader

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Leeds (IA); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Sewell Wallis Ltd is looking for an experienced Credit Control Team Leader to join a well-established company in Leeds. This role focuses on supervising the credit control team, overseeing the collection of debts, and maintaining strong client relationships. The position offers modern workspaces, study support, and a hybrid working model, providing an excellent opportunity for career growth and development.

Benefits

Modern offices

Study support

Working for an industry leader

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory experience in credit control.
• Proven experience of reducing aged debt.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the credit control team and ensuring efficient collection of outstanding debts.
• Reviewing and analysing aged debt, making calls to recover monies.
• Preparing monthly ledger reports and managing multiple ledgers.

Skills

Supervisory Experience

Credit Control

Communication Skills

Prioritization

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.