Part Time AR & Credit Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Part Time AR & Credit Analyst
Company: Wilkinson and Associates
Job description: Accounts Receivable & Credit Analyst – Part Time 3 Days – Hybrid
W&A is partnering with a specialist professional services business in Glasgow to help source a Accounts Receivable & Credit Analyst on a part time basis working 3 days per week.
The role holder will be responsible for assessing and making decisions about new customer credit limits and ensuring change requests reflect external data provided by their credit partner.
Additionally you will support the Accounts Receivables team in maximising cash collection through risk mitigation and managing the company’s bad debt exposure.
This is an excellent opportunity for a confident individual with strong communication skills to succeed in a leading business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide credit risk solutions & best practices available for risk mitigation during account creation process
- Review and maintain credit limits and exposure
- Monthly review of movement in risk / credit limit of clients
- Maintain exception list of clients where manual credit limit provided
- Improve awareness of credit risk best practice throughout the stakeholder community, driving positive cultural change by supporting and educating
- Regular reporting on key areas of focus (high risk, high value, sector specific etc.)
- Working closely with the credit controllers to assist their decision making with prioritising collections
- Support in any credit related projects
- Develop relationships with external credit partner for improved understanding of their credit evaluation and opinion
Required Experience & Skills:
- Experience in a similar commercial credit risk environment
- Essential Multi currency experience
- Advanced experience of excel and producing KPI reports for senior stakeholders
- Impeccable ability to understanding of financial statements, ratios and concepts
- Strong skills in credit analysis, information presentation and influencing
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, making sound financial decisions
- Excellent IT, analytical, numerical, interpersonal, communication, problem-solving and team working skills are also essential
- Confident and persuasive with good negotiation skills and the ability to recommend and implement policy
