Job Description
Morgan McKinley Northern Home Counties is proud to be working with an established and growing multi-entity business in the Oxfordshire area. Our client is seeking an experienced and hands-on Group Credit Controller to join their busy finance team on a permanent basis.
This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive Credit Controller who enjoys taking ownership of their ledger, building strong customer relationships and driving cash collection performance across multiple business entities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively manage and chase overdue customer accounts by telephone and email, ensuring timely payment.
- Monitor aged debt, prioritising collection activity based on value, age and risk.
- Maintain accurate customer account records, aged-debt reports and collection notes.
- Allocate incoming cash receipts and reconcile customer accounts, investigating unidentified or misallocated payments.
- Investigate and resolve invoice queries, payment discrepancies and customer disputes.
- Work closely with internal Billing, Accounts Receivable and operational teams to resolve outstanding queries.
- Monitor customer credit limits, payment terms and credit holds in line with company policy.
- Support credit checks and new customer account set-up.
- Identify potential credit risks and escalate significantly overdue or high-risk accounts.
- Support month-end accounts receivable and cash allocation activities.
- Work flexibly across multiple Group entities, supporting consistent credit-control processes.
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience within Credit Control, Collections or Accounts Receivable.
- Strong experience chasing overdue debt and managing aged-debt ledgers.
- Experience with cash allocation and customer account reconciliations.
- Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships and handle challenging payment conversations.
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Proactive approach with the ability to take ownership and see queries through to resolution.
- Confident using finance systems and Excel.
- Experience within a Group Finance or shared-service environment would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of NetSuite or a similar ERP system would be beneficial.
- AAT and/or CICM qualifications, or studying towards them, would be desirable but are not essential.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time opportunity.
- Opportunity to join an established and growing organisation.
- Varied role working across multiple business entities.
- Collaborative Group Finance environment.
- Convenient location for candidates commuting from Banbury, Brackley, Bicester, Buckingham and the wider Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire areas.