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Credit Controller

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Posted on Jul 20, 2026 by CV-Library
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Accountancy
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Contract/Project
PE Global is currently recruiting for a Credit Controller /Accounting Assistant for a leading multi-national manufacturing client based in Peterborough.

This is an initial 6-9 months contract position working on site 5 days per week.

Pay rate is £15.69ph PAYE or £21.30ph Umbrella.

Duties of the role/Responsibilities
• Adhere to dunning process to ensure customers pay to agreed terms, mitigating risk to the organisation.
• Negotiate payment plans, recovering interest and ensuring collection deadlines are met.
• Provide weekly Customer account updates to the Credit Manager and debt recovery progress.
• Lead customer and sales team aged debt reviews.
• Evaluate customers regularly for risk of bad debt.
• Support month-end closing activities, ensuring timely completion of reporting and reconciliation tasks.
• Effectively execute internal practices in accordance with our policy and corporate guidelines.
• Support the external audit process and internal SOX compliance reviews.
• Contribute towards process improvements, utilising data analytics to deliver new initiatives.

Education/Experience
• Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision.
• Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools/techniques to collect data from a variety of sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion (ie. Power BI).
• Ability to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external customers at various levels.
• Good knowledge of accounting and financial accounting.
• Experience with credit insurance.
• Fluent in Microsoft Excel, Power BI is advantageous.

Nice to have experience, knowledge:
• Knowledge of process improvement techniques and tools (ie. Six Sigma, Lean).
• Experience of Sarbanes-Oxley and/or other financial reporting governance controls.
• Prior job-related experience having worked within a fast-paced manufacturing/industrial environment, or within debt collection / recovery within credit finance insurance.
• Membership of the Institute of Credit Management (IoCM) or Institute of Export (MIEx).

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.

Please click the link below to apply.
***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in UK***

Although it is not possible for us to respond to all applications, we at PE Global will do our upmost to give you feedback on your application. You have sent your Cv into us as a company and even though you have sent your CV to a particular position, we are making the reasonable assumption that you are active on the job market and as part of our normal recruitment service we will discuss other suitable positions with you. You are free to opt out of this so please specify in your application to us if you just want to be contacted in relation to a specific vacancy. Your Cv is sent to a central recruitment inbox which a number of people in the applicable PE Global division have access to and so this means that you might not be contacted by the named person in this advert

Reference: 225393200

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Credit Controller

CV-Library

Posted on Jul 20, 2026 by CV-Library

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Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Accountancy
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Contract/Project
PE Global is currently recruiting for a Credit Controller /Accounting Assistant for a leading multi-national manufacturing client based in Peterborough.

This is an initial 6-9 months contract position working on site 5 days per week.

Pay rate is £15.69ph PAYE or £21.30ph Umbrella.

Duties of the role/Responsibilities
• Adhere to dunning process to ensure customers pay to agreed terms, mitigating risk to the organisation.
• Negotiate payment plans, recovering interest and ensuring collection deadlines are met.
• Provide weekly Customer account updates to the Credit Manager and debt recovery progress.
• Lead customer and sales team aged debt reviews.
• Evaluate customers regularly for risk of bad debt.
• Support month-end closing activities, ensuring timely completion of reporting and reconciliation tasks.
• Effectively execute internal practices in accordance with our policy and corporate guidelines.
• Support the external audit process and internal SOX compliance reviews.
• Contribute towards process improvements, utilising data analytics to deliver new initiatives.

Education/Experience
• Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision.
• Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools/techniques to collect data from a variety of sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion (ie. Power BI).
• Ability to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external customers at various levels.
• Good knowledge of accounting and financial accounting.
• Experience with credit insurance.
• Fluent in Microsoft Excel, Power BI is advantageous.

Nice to have experience, knowledge:
• Knowledge of process improvement techniques and tools (ie. Six Sigma, Lean).
• Experience of Sarbanes-Oxley and/or other financial reporting governance controls.
• Prior job-related experience having worked within a fast-paced manufacturing/industrial environment, or within debt collection / recovery within credit finance insurance.
• Membership of the Institute of Credit Management (IoCM) or Institute of Export (MIEx).

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.

Please click the link below to apply.
***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in UK***

Although it is not possible for us to respond to all applications, we at PE Global will do our upmost to give you feedback on your application. You have sent your Cv into us as a company and even though you have sent your CV to a particular position, we are making the reasonable assumption that you are active on the job market and as part of our normal recruitment service we will discuss other suitable positions with you. You are free to opt out of this so please specify in your application to us if you just want to be contacted in relation to a specific vacancy. Your Cv is sent to a central recruitment inbox which a number of people in the applicable PE Global division have access to and so this means that you might not be contacted by the named person in this advert
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Reference: 225393200

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