Greene King

Credit Controller

Greene King  •  Bury St Edmunds, GB (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.

As a Credit Controller you will be dealing with incoming calls and emails, releasing orders for delivery, daily contact with customers and field-based personnel, collection of payment to enable orders to be released, allocating cash correctly and in a timely fashion.

Qualifications

Your role as a Credit Controller...

  • Controlling your own ledger and ensuring overdue debt is escalated quickly to avoid unnecessary risk and potential write offs
  • Collection and allocation of payments
  • Releasing orders within scheduled timeframes and to deadline
  • Dealing with disputed invoices as well as liaising with the legal team on irrecoverable debt
  • Day to day administration support e.g. copy invoices, statements, customer accounts etc
  • Dealing with telephone and email queries quickly and efficiently
  • Building excellent relationships with customers as well as peers in other departments
  • Use of online platforms such as Procure Wizard
  • Putting together weekly Excel reports to send to the Sales Development Managers on overdue debts
  • Supporting colleagues to help cover tasks periodically.

What you’ll bring…

  • Good credit management experience desirable.
  • Ability to work well under pressure & in a changing environment.
  • Able to meet deadlines and performance targets as set out by the SLT.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and customer service skills.
  • A strong team player with excellent planning and organisation skills.
  • Proactive and methodical.
  • Good excel skills and familiar with windows applications

Additional Information

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

  • The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
  • Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
  • Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
  • Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
  • Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
  • Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
  • Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…
Greene King

About Greene King

Greene King is the country’s leading pub company and brewer with c.2,600 pubs, restaurants and hotels across England, Wales and Scotland.

At Greene King we are passionate about delivering our purpose to ‘pour happiness into lives’. That’s for our customers, our team, our pub partners, our suppliers and the communities in which we live, operate and serve. Founded in 1799 with offices in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and Burton on Trent in Staffordshire we employ around 40,000 people across the group with three divisions: Greene King pubs, Destination Brands & Ventures, and Brewing & Brands.

• Greene King pubs: Greene King pubs is our mainstream pub brand located where people and communities come together; pubs enjoyed in cities, towns and villages throughout the country with clear ambition to be “The Nation’s Most Loved Pub Brand”. Pub Partners runs our tenanted and leased pubs business and Hive Franchise pubs.

• Destination Brands & Ventures: Destination Brands is a portfolio of distinct brands which includes Hungry Horse, Chef & Brewer, Farmhouse Inns and Flaming Grill that bring friends and family together, delivering great service, quality and value for money for a range of eating out and drinking occasions. Venture includes Hickory’s, Premium (Crafted Pubs & Metropolitan Pub Company) and Hotels which operate autonomously of Greene King’s managed pub brands.

• Brewing & Brands covers the brewing sides of the business. Quality ales are brewed at the Westgate brewery in Bury St Edmunds and the Belhaven Brewery in Dunbar. Our industry-leading portfolio includes Greene King IPA, Old Speckled Hen, Abbot Ale, Ice Breaker and Belhaven Best and our premium beers, Level Head and Flint Eye, brewed for the modern-day drinker.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Bury St Edmunds, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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