Credit Controller (French speaking), Finance - London

Job Description

COSTAR GROUP – CREDIT CONTROLLER, FINANCE (FRENCH SPEAKING) - LONDON

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market. 

Learn more about CoStar. 

DESCRIPTION 

The Credit Controller will be responsible for full life cycle accounts receivable management for our portfolio of brands, in a fast-paced, high volume, customer centric, metrics driven environment. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for improving AR performance though concise AR Aging metrics
• Identify and resolve customer issues related to slow pay or non-payment of invoices through pro-active communication with clients and the sales team 
• Become proficient in understanding of company A/R-Collections life cycle, especially related to root cause analysis and AR aging prevention within a 3-month time frame 
• Coordinate and escalate slow or non-pay accounts at 60-days thresholds with sales organisation and AR Management for support.
• Balance portfolio performance with supporting occasional projects and ad hoc reporting requests
• Lead proactive meetings with sales leaders regards past due accounts

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• Demonstrable experience in consumer and/or commercial collection, billing, or cash applications in addition to customer service experience within a corporate setting 
• Proven ability to actively resolve customer inquiries in a timely manager and high degree of customer service. 
• Ability to work within time deadlines by prioritising workload and understanding the priority business outcomes. 
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency with Excel that includes the ability to manipulate data, filter and develop basic formulas (pivot tables and VLOOKUP’s)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in both French and English
• Additional language skills preferred (Spanish, German)
• Oracle Advanced Collections experience preferred
• Experience collaborating and communicating with other internal business partners 
• Strong focus and attention to detail
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company, especially in the period of month/quarter/year-end closing  

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and Bluefin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. However, we particularly encourage applications from women, disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing