Acting jobs in United Kingdom

Accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology. Join Molecular Devices, a Danaher operating company, and help drive scientific discovery for life science customers across academia, biotech, pharma, and government.

• Produce weekly and monthly reports on debtor balances, cash forecasts and credit risk, including analysis of customer payment behaviour and recommendations for improvements.
• Maintain robust credit management practices, ensuring compliance with policies and internal controls, and advise the commercial team on customer risk.
• Drive collection efforts for overdue accounts, implement recovery strategies and manage special billing situations such as credit adjustments, rebills and refunds.
• Champion process improvements in credit and collections management by documenting procedures, training new team members and providing support across the finance team.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships with both internal teams and external auditors, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Support month‑end close processes and liaise with external and internal auditors to ensure compliance and accuracy.

• Experience in accounts receivable within a fast‑paced global environment, ideally with a European customer base or within a US‑owned structure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to collaborate across departments and with third parties.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven analytical and problem‑solving abilities with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience working with Oracle ERP systems (preferred).

• Competitive benefits program including health care, paid time off, and more.
• Salary: £15–18 per hour (depending on experience).
• Hybrid working – 4 days in the office, 1 day at home.

Wokingham, United Kingdom.

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics.

Our client, a well‑established business with a strong reputation in their sector, is seeking a diligent and customer‑focused Credit Controller to join their finance team. This position plays a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the sales ledger, overseeing debt collection, and maintaining accurate and reconciled customer accounts.

• Manage daily cash allocation including downloading bank statements, posting receipts, updating cashbooks, and processing Worldpay/EPDQ funds.
• Proactively chase outstanding debt, manage aged receivables, issue proceedings when necessary, and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Reconcile customer accounts weekly and monthly.
• Produce weekly and monthly reports and invoices.
• Prepare and upload invoices to customer portals.
• Maintain system accuracy, including updating exchange rates.
• Assist with month‑end processes and audits.
• Build robust relationships with customers and internal teams; manage queries and issue statements.
• Apply the Senior Credit Controller responsibilities to enhance credit management and collections.

• Positive and proactive approach, able to work on own initiative.
• Excellent communicator and able to maintain good customer relations.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise.
• Intermediate Excel skills and proficient in MS Office and other Windows‑based software.
• Experience, recent UK experience, proven track record in credit control, hands‑on accounting functions.
• Fluent in English (oral & written).
• Ability to manipulate data, reasonable Excel skills (pivot tables, V‑lookups).
• Self‑driven, results‑oriented entrepreneurial person with a positive outlook and a clear focus.
• Attention to detail and ability to process a high volume of invoices.
• Ideally recent experience with Sage.
• Be a UK resident with recent UK experience.

• 25 days holiday.
• Salary sacrifice scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Free on‑site parking.
• Free gym.
• Hybrid working available after probation.
• Salary: £27,000 per annum.

Wokingham, United Kingdom.

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics.