Credit Controller

Job Description:
How would you like to team up with colleagues from the Americas, Europe, and Asia? Forget set-in-stone working hours and rules. Instead, choose your own style of delivering results by becoming a Guardian at Safeguard Global.

The role in a nutshell:
Our growing company is looking for a Credit Controller to handle credit assessments, decisions and terms and conditions. The successful applicant will possess strong critical thinking and decision-making skills. Your work will play a major role in maximizing revenue and mitigating credit risk. We will trust you to be excited to collaborate with our sales and marketing departments to implement an effective credit control system and resolve loan issues. You should have experience interacting and working with customers to ensure their needs are met and their credit fits in with the current risk portfolio. You should also understand when it’s appropriate to renegotiate payment plans. The Credit Analyst should be prepared to provide financial reporting and analysis to stakeholders, obtain feedback and make appropriate improvements.

How you will make a difference:

- Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors
- Evaluating new credit requests and reviewing customer’s credit behaviours
- Review Setting up of terms (Existing & New Clients) and conditions of credit
- Ensuring timely collection of debts and initiate legal procedures if necessary
- Negotiating re-payment plans
- Processing and reconciliation of invoices
- Preparation of statements, client status reports and all relevant information as required
- Reviewing aged debtors, whilst posting & allocating cash and keeping an ongoing clean sales ledger.
- Conducting regular debt review meetings with key stakeholders
- Managing the customer relationships and responding to internal and external queries in a timely manner.
- Liaising with Sales Invoicing Team with query resolution & working in multiple foreign currencies.
- Produce routine reports, schedules, and summaries for management and customers as required
- Ad Hoc analysis work for the wider finance function
- Working with contract and legal teams to create new customer accounts in the finance system, as well as issue setup invoices.
- Supporting the production of the client billing process. Including monthly KPI and Adhoc figures
- Develop the credit control system in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance and company executives

What will give you an advantage:

- Proven track record of making successful credit decisions
- Excellent customer service skills, teamwork, organization and communication skills
- Positive and a very strong, can do attitude
- Ability to pursue external and internal contacts in a professional and organized manner, along with working from their own initiative to keep aged debtors to a minimum.
- Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail.
- Ability to own the whole process, operating in a structured and organized way.
- Highly numerate and literate with high level of communication skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel to a high level.
- Ability to work in harmony with other team members and use own initiative for broadening own expertise and experience.
- Accurate, efficient and organized with the ability to prioritize tasks as needed
- Ability to maintain strong relationships with external clients and internal colleagues

Why become a Guardian:
International Environment: Our teams are borderless. Interact, collaborate, discover cultures, and expand your personal network beyond your country.

‍ ‍ Our Culture: We are nurturing a workplace where everything you do is in harmony with who you are. Where your ideas will always find their way to our leaders, and your contribution recognized.

Autonomy & Flexibility (Work in Any Way): As a fellow Guardian, you will decide when, how and where you work best. We value results, not working hours.

Learning: Even though perfection is impossible to reach, we support everyone striving towards it by providing you access to 2 learning platforms. Learn at your own pace, as much and whatever you need.

✨Valuable Experience: Wherever you go, challenges will await you. At Safeguard Global you will find the “right” challenges to hone you into the ultimate professional.

Who we are and what we do:
Safeguard Global is an international company with multiple offices across the globe. We call ourselves Guardians, and there are over 1600 of us in 25 countries.

As a Work in Any Way company which means we let you decide where and how you work we enable over a thousand organizations to hire, onboard, manage and pay employees in over 165 countries.

It's all about the people. First, we hire the best talent from across the globe, thus allowing you to learn about new cultures and interact with many different people worldwide. We also invest in efficient tools and balance a combination of agile technologies, in-depth local market expertise, and e