Credit Controller

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly‑regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work.

With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

In this role, you’ll:

• Ensure consistent application of the firm’s debt provisioning policy
• Ensure that the debtors ledger contains minimal adjustments and, where appropriate, that over payments or payments on account are properly returned, applied or cleared
• Actively chase all overdue debt within the allotted portfolio and update Partners/Managers as appropriate
• Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date client notes following conversations with clients, using People Soft Financials to record status
• Prepare monthly summary reports
• Identify problem debts that require escalation and liaise with Credit Control Manager as appropriate
• Where necessary, engage and manage the process of debts that need to go legal
• Work with the accounts receivable team in respect of cash receipts and remittance details to aid effective and accurate allocation
• Involvement in credit checks on existing / new clients as appropriate before new work is taken on
• Ensure that credit notes are processed correctly, monitoring reasons for credit notes being raised
• Provide client base with monthly statements of account as appropriate

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to both motivate individuals and deal professionally with performance issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present confidently and convincingly to management
• Commitment to delivering exceptional client service to internal and external stakeholders

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well as offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 25 days’ holiday
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions
• life assurance cover
• income protection insurance

That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different, so we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform means our people can choose from a range of tax‑efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. You can:

• buy up to ten days’ extra holiday
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance
• enrol in our Bike to Work scheme
• enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining and gyms
• receive an interest‑free season ticket loan or interest‑free graduate loan
• take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals.

Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

Are you ready to join them?