Credit Controller

Credit Controller – Leeds City Centre

Up to £30,000 per annum depending on experience

Full-time - 35 hours per week

Hybrid working available, 3 days in the office

33 days holiday including bank holidays

Do you have recent experience working within an end-to-end credit control role?

Are you someone who enjoys building relationships with customers and taking ownership of your workload?

Based in Leeds City Centre, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established and highly regarded business that continues to grow. Due to ongoing development within the finance team and plans to double their turnover over the coming years, they are now looking to recruit a Credit Controller to support their sales ledger and credit function.

This is a varied and busy role where you will have involvement across the credit control process. You will join an experienced and approachable team who work closely together and support each other, reporting into a knowledgeable and approachable Credit Manager who encourages development and progression.

The business has built a strong reputation within its industry and is known for having a positive and supportive culture. Alongside this, they place real importance on employee engagement and giving back, with regular social events and opportunities to get involved in local community initiatives.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

• Chasing customers for payment of outstanding invoices via phone and email
• Managing daily customer queries relating to invoices and payments
• Building strong relationships with clients to resolve issues quickly and professionally
• Posting and allocating customer payments accurately
• Producing and issuing sales invoices and statements
• Completing daily bank reconciliations and supporting cash allocation processes
• Assisting with aged debtor reporting and supporting commentary where required
• Working closely with internal teams to resolve account queries
• Supporting the wider finance team during busy periods such as month end

To be considered for this role you will:

• Have previous experience working within a credit control role and will have covered all aspects of the process and will have dealt with complex queries and ledgers
• Be confident communicating with customers and building strong working relationships
• Have good attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Be comfortable managing your own workload in a busy environment
• Have good Excel skills and will be confident using finance systems

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their experience within credit control while working for a business that values its people and offers a supportive team environment in a central Leeds location.

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Gemma met with Janet via Teams 05/03/26 - she was really friendly at first but then was a bit standoffish like I had take ntoo much of her time and referred me to speak back to laura - recruitment if I had any further questions

She's been there for 8 years, massive growth plans for 2030, last year so 2024 they collected 642million, 2030 vision is to double again, demanding place to work but they do really care about their people, partners are quite inspiring, live by their values and your not pigeon holed can move into different teams/departments.Work to tough KPI's, volumes and expectations.

Team - 11 look after the UK

1 - Dubai - middle and far east

1 Paris

1 german speaking

Nothing there is automated at all re AI, everything is really manual and consequences of getting things wrong don't allow them to automate things, is mainly email focused rather than call but are calsl involved, do talk about the frusrations of the job at interview stage, cash target that they live and breath, need to do enthusiastic and want to work to that, quite complex emails with different people, partners etc copied in, has about twn cvs that she hasnt looked at yet, leave it 2 weeks direct first, take 4/5 to shortlist, 1st stage with team leader, janet 2nd stage, need to be able to pass dbs and credit background checks, can take 3 weeks to come back, wouldnt ever use temps because of this, interviews w/com 16th or 23rd of march - will get laura to send logins so I can submit candidaters