Wanted: Credit Controller

Full control of the sales ledger, ensuring all sales transactions are processed correctly, management of the debtors ledger including debt chasing, assessing credit applications and liaising with each business unit sales teams.

About us:

We’re a multi-award-winning drinks and technology start-up on a mission to disrupt the drinks industry.

We’re re-imagining online drinks retail from the ground up, using cutting edge technology and fanatical customer service to build a company we want to be customers of and create unexpected delight as we help people explore, buy and enjoy high end whisky and other spirits.

In everything we do, we are disruptive innovators; it’s baked into our DNA to challenge orthodoxy and received wisdom wherever we find it.

We’ve grown a lot since we were just a few kids in a shed with big dreams, but we haven’t lost our hunger to build something great, and we’re looking for people who have the same passion for making things better to join us on that journey.

In the last 10 years we’ve become the number 1 player in our industry, but we’ve barely gotten started. We’re excited about the future and we’d like you to come and help us build it!

Primary tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure input of sales transactions and cash receipts are accurately transferred from source
• Managing trade debtor balance and producing weekly reports
• Proactive debt chasing including confirmation of payment dates
• Produce Debtor reporting to be used throughout the business
• Build relationships with key trade debtors accounts team
• Producing adhoc invoices/credit notes from the accounting system
• Preparing and emailing monthly statements to all relevant customers
• Management of the payments in to bank account
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with sales and operational teams and to provide them timely information.

Our ideal candidate:

We're looking for someone who wants to put humanism into credit control,. You are proud of your approach and can ensure payments are made without the person on the other end of the telephone feeling like that's the reason for your call.

You don’t seek out a point of escalation and delegation, you ARE the point of escalation and delegation. You see an issue, improvement opportunity or chance to improve and you take it - getting your hands dirty to make things better

You are highly intelligent, tenacious and motivated. You’re utterly intolerant of corporate rubbish and mediocrity;

You have a positive can-do attitude, you learn fast, and relish a challenge. You question things and need to understand them on a deep level and have an un-rivalled attention to detail.

You are exceptionally curious and creative – solving hard problems is what gets you out of bed in the morning. In terms of our other criteria;

• Credit control experience is essential.
• Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels.
• Ability to reconcile complex accounts accurately
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Strong team-working skills and able to work on own initiative
• Ability to work across boundaries with colleagues at all levels including non finance members of staff
• Analytical and logical problem solving skills
• Organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Ability to explain complex financial information in a clear way
• Educated to ‘A’ level standard, with GCSE Maths in grade B or above
• Familiar with Microsoft Excel; experience of Google Suite of apps would be useful

Benefits

We’re all about boundless curiosity, so you’ll discover loads of opportunities to spark your creative flair and work along-side unreal talent who all have the same job description, to ‘Make Atom Successful.’ Trust is at the epicentre of all that we can do, so you’ll work in a transparent and honest environment where we have each other’s backs, and be free of aging corporate policies and rules.

Life here’s about so much more than pay and benefits - you might get a slightly higher salary if you cram onto an expensive, crowded commuter train into the city, but you’ll struggle to find a company with the flex, agility and unique-ness that we have. In short, we’ve got you covered financially but if money is your main driver, we’re not for you.

We hate waste in all of it’s forms and time is no different, so we’re focused on productivity and output rather than when or where you work, or what you wear into the office - you can come in fancy dress for all we care! This means that although we can’t promise anything, flexible working options are built into our DNA.

Along with the stuff you get for turning up to work each day (think private healthcare scheme, unlimited annual leave, pension, cycle-2-work, eye care, enhanced maternity & paternity leave, free food, drinks and parking at the office), you’ll also get a healthy staff discount on our world-class range (just in case that makes a difference).

We don’t sit still, and there’s a lot more to come... Apply now if you want to join us.

Diageo