credit manager Ely, England
Job description
About Life Fitness
Life Fitness is a Global market leader – inspiring healthier lives for over 50 years. With the industry’s widest range of unique cardio, strength and group training products, Life Fitness offers limitless unique possibilities for facilities and exercisers.
We are dedicated to creating fitness solutions for both facilities and exercisers. We build partnerships by adding value through inspiration, education and co-creation. We partner with elite sporting clubs and organisations such as Wrexham FC, Williams Racing and Wimbledon among others.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Credit Manager you will support business profitability through the effective management of cashflow and minimising exposure to overdue and bad debts.
Through collaboration with internal teams including Sales and Order Management you will enable our customers to facilitate their purchases by carrying out financial analysis and the preparation of credit submissions.
Role Responsibilities
- Take ownership of UK portfolio of customers, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with these customer.
- Pro-actively manage your portfolio of customers to collect debts as they fall due through effective and timely communications.
- Regularly engage with stakeholders to highlight, discuss and address any concerns in your portfolio.
- Monitor shared email inbox, ensuring that external customer and other departments queries and requests are resolved promptly and accurately.
- Ensure prompt allocation of cash receipts to maintain accurate accounts receivable balances and ageing.
- Drive continuous improvement by implementing process changes and engaging in relevant projects.
- Work with the wider teams to achieve group targets such as month end reporting and debtor days.
- Review credit worthiness of customers and prepare credit report, evaluating upcoming orders in relation to the individual circumstances of each customer.
Competencies
- Comfortable in a fast paced, changing environment
- Good interpersonal and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to take responsibility and be accountable for own areas
- Flexible (in both attitude and hours) as is required by the demands of the business
- Exceptional organisation skills can multi task and have the ability to prioritise
- from the deadlines set
- Ability to react quickly in an ever-changing and demanding environment
- Good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
- High attention to detail
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Ely: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- accounting: 1 year (preferred)
- credit control: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
