Credit Controller/Accounts Administrator

Accounts Administrator / Credit Controller (Temporary – to cover maternity leave)

Position required from - February -Urgent start date x 12 months cover

Hours/Salary: Negotiable /Flexible hours

½ hour unpaid lunch per day, 33.5 working hours.

These hours/ start and finish times can be negotiable if required but the earliest start time is 8:30am and latest finish 4:30pm (3pm on a Friday) with a minimum working hours of 30 per week, and a maximum of 33.5 hours as per above, not including lunch breaks.

£12.50 per hour

Duties:

• Chasing insurers and loss adjusters for client payments via email and telephone by organising own diary/follow up system and making appropriate file notes to ensure timely payments
• Reconciling payments on receipt and allocating them as necessary (one bulk payment is made up of several smaller amounts for various creditors)
• Calculation and payment of various suppliers, clients and other providers, via online banking, after commission calculation deductions where appropriate
• Updating finance spreadsheet to show correct allocation of funds and monies outstanding
• Creating new case files and keeping them up to date with status of claim
• General file admin to support the loss assessors such as typing quotes, invoices, contents claims, email correspondence as necessary
• Answering the main office telephone to clients, loss adjusters, contractors and insurance companies in a polite and professional manner and directing calls or taking messages as appropriate
• Keeping records of diaries
• Reporting to company directors / financial controller on outstanding debtors
• Organising stationary orders and keeping holiday records for all employees
• Banking cheques

Essential attributes:

• Extremely organised and able to manage own time
• Confident professional telephone manner and communication skills
• Extremely proficient with mathematical calculations including calculating vat %
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proficient in all Microsoft packages
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Desirable attributes:

• Experience in a similar role
• Clean driving licence and own car (weekly short trips to the bank or post office may be required - business mileage paid)