Credit Controller; French Speaking

Overview

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

• Having clear ownership of an overseas debt ledger, resolving easy debt, tricky debts and everything in between
• Building great, productive relationships across all levels of the business
• Driving cash flow to meet your own and your stakeholders’ targets
• Helping stakeholders understand how to use our Debt Collection Agency
• Raising the profile of the credit policies and Credit Management services
• Team‑working to ensure no balls are dropped when others are on holiday

You will become part of an energetic team, working together to support our engineers in the collection of payments for the exciting projects they have delivered for their clients. The majority of your time will be spent getting in touch with the clients on the ledger you’re responsible for, ensuring they have our invoices and any objections they have to paying them are overcome.

You will build relationships with key stakeholders across Finance and our operational business then use those connections to push debts to their conclusion through joining calls with clients or debt review calls. You will become a key member of the wider business team and an expert in collecting cash in our industry.

• Credit Control / Accounts Receivable or other transactional accounting experience such as Accounts Payable, Treasury, Cash Application or Billing
• Worked in a Professional Services environment (like a Law firm or Consultancy) or Engineering / Construction sector, all the better
• Proficient in English and French (spoken and written)
• The ability to manage multiple priorities, manage your own time and meet deadlines
• Great attention to detail and understand what it takes to deliver an excellent service to your customers

We try to contact our internal and external customers by telephone rather than email, so you’ll need to be comfortable with that and with the behaviours you’ll need to display as an ambassador for WSP. You’ll also need to be able to write great, accurate and concise emails. You may be studying for CICM (Chartered Institute of Credit Management) exams or already have them, or you may be studying for a different qualification or be interested in exploring one.

Either way, you’ll want to continue developing yourself and your career with WSP.

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long‑lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community. Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging  have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote our culture of inclusivity.

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