The Music Royalty Company provide financial and administrative services to many Record Labels, Distributors, Publishers and Recording Artists.
We require a dedicated Credit Controller with a minimum of two (2) years experience in previous accounting roles.
This is a media role, so dress will always be smart casual.
Your main duties will include:
- Raising Sales Invoices
- Reconcile monthly incoming sales statements
- Provide accurate financial information to royalties team and clients when required
- Checking customer's credit situation
- Dealing with internal queries about payments, ensuring customers pay on time and negotiating re-payment plans
- Assist in the setting up of the credit control system
- Ensure that debts are paid in a timely manner
- Chase overdue invoices by telephone, email and letter within agreed timescales
- Maintain accurate records of all chasing activity
- Regularly making contact with customers to ensure all relevant debts are managed as necessary - Identify changes in payment patterns and propose action to avert indebtedness
- Provide accurate advice on billing queries
- Respond promptly and completely to both client and internal enquiries
- Propose write off of irrecoverable receivables
- Providing ad-hoc reporting as and when requested by management
- Undertake account reconciliations as required
- Ensure monthly processing deadlines are met as required
- Send out monthly client statements/letters as may be agreed from time to time
- Other duties as delegated from time to time by the FD
- If any customers stop paying or pay late then it's your responsibility to stop the providing services, start legal action to collect the money owed (if necessary) and in the case of bankruptcy you'll have to report to your higher management about the strategies to make sure you can recover what you can.
You are expected to regularly review the company's debt recovery procedures.
Required Skills and Abilities
- Should be very personable, but firm when required
- Good team management skills
- The ability to work in a team and individually
- Excellent Customer Facing Skills
- Sound decision-making
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good attention to detail
- The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Good business judgement
- A good head for numbers
- Previous experience using an accounting system.