Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a Credit Controller based at our head office in Kegworth. We are fast-paced, hugely customer-driven, always looking to innovate, develop and improve what we do, and this creates the opportunity for you to develop and grow your career with us. Our people are friendly, open, and approachable, hugely supportive, and we have undergone high growth and high change over the past 5 years and expect to again double in size over the next 5 years.

About the Role

You will undertake duties to ensure smooth cash flow for the company and avoid aged debt.

Reporting directly to the Accounts Receivable Manager you will be part of a team of the credit control / goods receivable team which sits within our finance function .

As a Credit Controller here are your key areas of focus:

• Taking responsibility for customer accounts as defined by your manager, ensuring effective cash collection to support the company’s working capital target
• Chasing and pre-chasing all outstanding invoices, highlighting any payment issues to the senior Credit Controllers or Credit Manager
• Posting cash receipts & credit notes promptly to ensure the accuracy of the Sales Ledger
• Ensuring that bad debt does not exceed 1% of the total AR ledger
• Query resolution of customer deductions and disputes, ensuring these are investigated and processed swiftly, with no more than 150 outstanding. Highlighting any issues to the Commercial Account Manager and escalating to the Credit Manager if not resolved in a timely manner
• Managing all new and existing customer set up, including credit checks and monitoring credit alerts. Managing the daily cash balancing process, following up and resolving any cash queries
• Providing the Credit Manager with relevant information for the monthly credit note provision ensuring all copy invoices are chased for accuracy in the accounts. Providing a detailed listing of all outstanding debit notes each month
• Preparation of the weekly cash forecast, pulling information from the system and checking the data is correct. Escalating any issues to the Senior Credit Controllers/Credit Managers in a timely manner.
• Leading the preparation of the daily billing process, ensuring that invoicing is both timely and accurate. Monitoring the daily EDI billing process, identifying omissions and deletions, and making corrections as appropriate to ensure successful transmission of invoices. Investigating and resolving EDI issues

About You

Qualifications

You will at a minimum be O-Level educated in English and Maths. Ideally, you will Intermediate Food Safety and Health and Safety training and competency.

Experience

You will have a minimum 1-year experience in Finance administration and be experience of dealing with credit control and sales ledger. You will bring with your knowledge of working with Finance systems and have basic MS Excel and SAP skills. You will have proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

Personal Attributes

• Friendly and approachable
  

• Good team worker
  

• Flexible attitude and embraces change
  

• Enthusiastic, enjoys daily challenges
  

• Excellent attention to detail
  

• Methodical
  

Ultimately, we want you to live, drink, and breathe the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful.

Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values .

If you believe you are a great match for this profile, we want to hear from you.

Reward & Benefits

The salary for this role is dependent on experience. Working hours are Monday to Friday – 38 hours per week, and we have free, onsite parking. In addition, we offer, a good company pension scheme, 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (with the option to purchase additional holidays) and access to a sports and social fund.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling – https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ - as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees – https://www.perkbox.com/uk .

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 15 countries and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drinks such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on our customers’ tables for every occasion #LI-MB1