About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10, 000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership Development
• Total Rewards

Job description

We are looking for a professional, enthusiastic and highly motivated Credit Controller to join our EMEA Finance Team. This is an excellent opportunity to work as a key member of this highly visible international Finance team, in a growing and diversifying business.

Working in the EMEA Shared Services team, this is a pan-EMEA role and will involve managing an Accounts Receivable portfolio across a number of offices across the EMEA region. As part of the EMEA credit control team, prime responsibilities will be to ensure that potential credit issues are quickly flagged, expert collections guidance and support is offered to the client facing teams on a timely basis and regional aging debt and provisions are reviewed and managed on a regular basis.

Candidates should be well organized, task orientated, able to work to deadlines, multi-task and able to follow instructions. They should be a personable, confident communicator and understand the importance of building relationships with clients (internal and external). We are looking for a team player who is able to contribute to the success of the team.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Assist the EMEA Credit Control Manager & Team Leader on a day to day
• Post cash accurately and in a timely manner for the region including intercompany
• Month End Cash Reconciliations for all EMEA accounts.
• Complete daily administrative tasks, resolving internal and external queries.
• Assist Client Partners with collection of outstanding invoices including reviews/meetings, reporting, and chasing of debt.
• Specific management of EMEA wide Client accounts / countries which need
• Prepare the quarterly review of country commentary of all invoices over 180 days as part of SOX control, and assigning appropriate bad debt provisions at invoice level.
• Liaising closely with Billing & Accounts Payable to actively resolve queries and escalate issues as and when
• Actively resolving all credit balances/unassigned cash within the region and documenting in line with legal requirements (seeking assistance from Manager as required).
• Assisting in the Month End close process from an AR
• Where circumstances dictate, working with our legal team on collection
• Identifying (escalating where necessary) all bad debt write offs for
• Assisting with time sensitive projects.
• Other ad hoc tasks, as needed

The Team:

• The role reports to the EMEA Credit Control Manager.
• This role will work with Project Managers, EAs, Senior Client Partners, Consultants, Accountants, and wider finance team.

Experience:

It is anticipated that the profile, skills and experience of the successful candidate will include:

• Professional and confident
• Good communicator and comfortable talking to many different people at all levels in the organization and
• Excellent attention to
• Very organized/thorough note
• Committed, bright, numerate and
• Team player who thrives in a multi-tasking, deadline driven
• Working knowledge of SAP (would be advantageous, but not essential) or other large enterprise wide accounting systems
• Fluent in English and a second language would be
• At least two years relevant work experience.
• Good work ethic.

Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry

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Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.