Job Title: Credit Controller/Accounts Assistant
Location: Pontefract
Salary: £19,500 – £23,500 D.O.E
Job type: Full Time, 07:30-16:30 – Friday finish at 15:30 – Flexi hours available
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Dempsey Dyer are a family business established over 40 years ago, specialising in the manufacture of bespoke windows and doors in Timber, PVC and Aluminium to the Trade and Commercial market sectors.
Dempsey Dyer is a company that values employees and believes in continuous improvement, where you will have plenty of opportunities to put forward your ideas and make your role your own.
A vacancy has arisen within our Accounts team for a credit controller/accounts assistant.
Working in this role you will be responsible for ensuring the appropriate management of client credit agreements as well as the timely and effective collection of all debts and customer payments, resolving customer queries (by phone or email) and maintaining credit control records. Meticulous attention to detail is crucial for this role, as is the ability to manage competing demands.
Your duties may include:
- Timely and effective collection of all debts and customers payments, working on various accounts to ensure prompt payment
- Negotiating settlements of accounts and dealing with enquiries and incoming calls
- Working towards cash collection targets to help reduce outstanding debt
- To follow up on all deadlines and co-ordinate further action where required
- Produce sales invoices, maintain and monitor the sales ledger producing all necessary reports
- Maintaining contact with customers to ensure invoices are clear for payment
- Resolving queries both internally and externally around outstanding invoices
- Posting and allocating daily receipts to company accounting system ensuring all under or overpayments are followed up with the customer.
- In conjunction with the finance manager preparing a monthly report on debt for presentation to management
- Providing information to internal departments
- General accounts admin
The Candidate:
- Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels
- Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail
- Competence in Microsoft Office products and particularly Excel
- Prior experience with Zoho accounts package is an advantage
- Calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations
- Ideally will have some knowledge of Applications for payments and retentions
- Commercial awareness to understand the implications of accepting or rejecting a request to allow credit or delay payments.
Company Benefits:
- 32 days holiday inc bank holidays
- Christmas shutdown
- Company Pension
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Accounts Assistant, Accounts Clerk, Finance Clerk, Credit Controller, Payment Processing, Purchase Ledger, Financial Administrator, Accounts Admin, Finance Support, Assistant Credit Controller, Credit Control will also be considered.
