Credit Control Finance Assistant

Four Marketing Group was founded over 20 years ago and consists of a number of businesses, with the mainstay of its work in wholesale sales, agency representation and distribution. Companies include global lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, luxury outerwear brand Arctic Army, wholesale distributor Four Marketing and our PR and Marketing agency, Present Agency.

Purpose of the post:

The Credit Controller is an integral part of the busy Finance Team. With shared responsibility for credit control tasks and all bank postings across the group.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Banking and bank reconciliation:

• Ensure banking entries across the group are entered into the system on a timely basis
• Posting of multicurrency bank postings
• Intercompany postings
• Reconcile bank to statement and GL per month end timetable

Credit Control:

• Ownership of the Pretty Green customer ledger plus other group companies, both daily and month end tasks
• Dealing with both national and international multicurrency customers
• New customer process – DocuSign, credit safe reports, create customer cards
• Have a full understanding of sales ledger
• Release of sales orders for stock-picking/packing and sales order releasing – liaising with Operations/Sales team
• Proactive approach debt collection
• Facilitate resolution of customer queries
• Posting of multicurrency bank postings
• Customer remittance and payment allocation
• Any other reasonable duties required by the business, as directed by the line manager

What you'll need:

• Have at least 12 months in Credit Control and/or accounting function.
• Proactive approach to resolve and escalate any issues on timely basis (before invoice due date)
• Possess excellent customer service skills with a confident and positive attitude
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience using Styleman and Business (Central) Dynamics 365 – will be an advantage
• Possess good Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables and VLOOKUP desirable)
• Have a hands-on approach and keen attention to detail
• Have the ability to work well independently and as part of a team

The successful candidate will enjoy access to a variety of benefits such as:

• 21 days annual leave entitlement + plus Bank holidays each year
• Generous staff discount across a variety of brands
• Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Charity time-bank scheme
• Ability to purchase additional annual leave