Head of Credit Control

Were Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. Were a full service techenabled firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals and make an impact in the world.

Were growing fast and are bringing likeminded advisors together to form a fullservice techenabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UKs leading techenabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our highcalibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us youll not only be working on exciting client challenges youll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

The role will be responsible for the transformation of Gravitas credit control function as the group continues to expand through both organic growth and multisite buy and build activity.

Working closely with the partners and client facing staff as well as the rest of the finance team the successful candidate will ensure that cash generation is optimised through effective use of technology and management of the credit control team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Transformation: Review of credit control process and implementation of process improvements including cadence of meetings with partners KPI setting and monitoring use of data

• Relationship building: Building effective relationships with partners and key clients in order to understand opportunities for better receivables collection

• Team management: Management of an initial team of 6 as the credit control team expands through multisite buy & build. Team KPI setting and monitoring and incentivisation of team (e.g. possible collection bonuses)

• Month end reporting: DSO analysis banking covenant requirements (if applicable) reporting packs. Ensuring credit control software reporting suite is operating effectively

• Use of technology: Ensuring Gravita optimizes the use of best in class credit control technology including system workflow use of data analytics automated cash collection processes

• External relations: Building relationships with key clients and external debt collection agencies where required

• Data: Utilising existing practice management systems e.g CCH/ Iris to ensure all information is available to drive better decision making and actions

• Integration: Experience of a Buy & Build environment where acquired businesses are brought into the acquirers processes in a scalable way across multiple sites

Qualifications Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in senior credit control roles

• Advanced Excel Skills

• Ideally prior experience in a PE environment

• Experience in professional services ideally Accountancy or a similar space e.g. Law

• Ideally some experience in B2C businesses as well as B2B

• A real aptitude for working with numbers;

• Excellent ability to problem solve; and

• Confident communication and presentation skills

The Nitty Gritty

• Our standard working week is a 37.5hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50 of your time across the month home based and the other 50 office based)
• Core working hours are 10am 4pm Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fastpaced changes
• Your development wont be forgotten our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size
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