Credit Controller / Management Accountant

Blake Clough Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is seeking an experienced Credit Controller / Management Accountant to support finance operations. This key role involves managing credit control, ensuring cash management, and contributing to month-end reporting. Candidates should have proven credit control experience, a strong understanding of finance systems, and excellent communication skills. This position offers hybrid working with a competitive salary and performance-related bonus scheme.

Benefits

Performance related bonus

Company pension scheme

Flexible annual leave

Training and development

Employee referral bonus

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a credit control or finance assistant role.
• Strong understanding of credit control process and cash allocation.
• Ability to communicate with clients regarding payments.

Responsibilities

• Manage credit control and debt chasing.
• Perform bank postings and reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly cashflow forecasts.

Skills

Credit control experience

Cash allocation understanding

Communication with clients

Attention to detail

Excel proficiency

Finance systems experience

Education

AAT / CICM / ACCA / CIMA (qualified or studying towards)

Tools

FreeAgent

Zoho

SAP

Job description

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Credit Controller / Management Accountant to join our finance team, reporting directly into the Group Financial Controller. This is a key role supporting the day-to-day running of the finance function across the Group, with responsibility for credit control, cash management, and core transactional finance processes.

You will play an important part in maintaining strong cash collection performance, ensuring accurate and timely postings, transactional finance and month-end reporting across the Group, and supporting improved financial controls and reporting as the business continues to grow.

Key responsibilities include:

• Credit control / debt chasing and query resolution
• Bank postings, cash allocations and bank reconciliations of multiple currency balances
• Sales invoicing and maintaining accurate debtor records
• Preparing monthly cashflow forecasts
• Weekly cash reporting to the Group
• Monitoring and reconciling credit card spend
• Ensure timely payments while ensuring approvals and supporting documentation are in place
• Supporting month-end close and audit preparation

The Individual

Essential experience and skills

• Proven experience in a credit control / finance assistant / sales ledger role
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end credit control process and cash allocation
• Confident communicating with clients regarding outstanding payments
• High attention to detail and ability to work to deadlines
• Strong Excel skills (including use of spreadsheets for tracking and reporting)
• Experience using finance systems (FreeAgent, Zoho, SAP, or similar)

Desirable

• Experience working in a group structure
• Exposure to month-end close and audit support
• Strong understanding of multi-currency accounting, including FX gains/losses, exchange rate application, and reconciliation of foreign currency balances
• Qualified or studying towards AAT / CICM / ACCA / CIMA

You must also have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Base Location

London, Glasgow, Slaithwaite (Huddersfield) or Karachi. Hybrid working is the normal way of working. We will also consider fully remote for exceptional candidates.

Working Pattern

At Blake Clough we recognise that flexible working is important to our people and offers a lifestyle where work can effectively with your personal life.

As such, we are looking for a passionate individual to join us full time with flexible working patterns encouraged and a mix of remote and office-based work available.

Benefits

We offer acompetitive base salarytogether withperformance related bonus schemeintended to reward high performers. Our bonus scheme is designed to reflect individual performance in addition to company performance. Our benefits include:

• Performance related bonus
• Company pension scheme
• Allowance to buy and sell annual leave
• Strong emphasis on training and development
• Two in-person events per year
• Employee referral bonus

Next StepsIf the role description above reflects you and you are excited by the prospect of joining us, please apply online via our website or to [e-mail], providing both a CV and a cover letter.