Credit Control Assistant

Are you an experienced Credit Control Assistant with a passion for driving results, problem solving and building effective relationships? We have a great opportunity to join a dedicated and friendly team, working collaboratively to achieve excellence in debt recovery across all parts of our Group to cover maternity leave on a 14 month fixed term contract.

Your role

Reporting to our Group Credit Control Lead, you will support in the collection of outstanding debt across the business for all our divisions and locations. You will build effective relationships with colleagues and customers to help in maintaining the financial health of our business by supporting debt recovery, processing credit card and online payments efficiently and accurately. You will prepare for and participate in debt review meetings, providing clear reporting on outstanding balances.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What you’ll bring

You will:

• Have previous experience in a similar role for a large organisation, ideally working in a shared services environment
• Be organised and perform all tasks in a structured manner
• Have a high level of numerical and data entry speed and accuracy
• Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Have excellent communication skills
• Ideally have previous use of SAP, however full training will be provided if not
• Be an intermediate level user of Microsoft Office, particularly with excel

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!