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Sector: Technology
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
About us:
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.
We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself on being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, large-scale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.
Role Purpose:
Reporting to the Head of Finance Operations, the role will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of a fast-paced accounts receivable function. You will drive the team responsible for managing recovery of outstanding amounts due from retailers.
Ensuring risk exposure is minimal and appropriate mitigation is in place, whilst being a champion for retailer advocacy.
Taking ownership of the direct debit processes to facilitate collection from our retailers and our subscription players, you will provide sufficient resolutions to problems and queries.
Communicate effectively with a host of stakeholders around the business to ensure you are continually driving process improvement.
You will act as the senior point of contact for the credit & collections team driving change, efficiency, and high-performance results.
Role Responsibilities:
* Responsible for the daily activities of the credit & collections function, including but not limited to, overseeing daily banking and cash allocation, reconciliation, credit check referrals, monitoring risk, and chasing debt.
* Ownership of the direct debit processes to facilitate collection from our retailers and our online subscription players.
* Ensuring the team invokes the relevant sanctions for all late payments.
* Weekly reporting of invoicing totals, ageing totals, cash receipts, and invoicing adjustments.
* Ensuring that all late payments are flagged accordingly within the business.
* Deliver the quarterly credit forum.
* Ensuring adherence to our credit and bond policies at all times.
* Ensure Grade of Service KPI's are achieved.
* Support with the production of the Finance Operations teams KPI's so management are able to track performance.
* Review current procedures and recommend process improvements.
* Assisting the Head of Finance Operations with any ad hoc projects.
* Minimising Camelot's bad debt exposure.
* Review and sign off of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
* As the credit & collections manager, you will also have 2 direct reports and you will be responsible for all aspects of line management.
Key Measures of Success:
* Bad debt expense YOY reduction.
* Clean balance sheet reconciliations.
* Monthly KPI Pack with commentary.
* Highly performing & engaged team.
Key Skills and Experience:
* Ideally holds a Credit Management qualification (or qualification by experience).
* At least 3 years experience leading a credit control function.
* Strong academics; University and A levels.
* Proven experience of managing in a fast-paced credit control environment.
* Advanced Excel skills.
* Have a customer-focused attitude.
* Experience of using SAP desirable.
* Experienced in managing a high performing team and can demonstrate expertise in motivating and developing people.
* Demonstrable track record of improving processes and controls.
* Able to forge strong relationships across the business.
Our goal is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
Company
Our vision is to grow the National Lottery responsibly, making it bigger, better and safer for all, with more for good causes.
Bigger because we will significantly increase Good Causes contributions by the end of the Fourth Licence through responsible growth of people playing.
Better because we will modernise technology and operations, refresh games and support shops while improving the use of data and digital.
Safer because participant protection underpins everything we do.
What is unique about us?
Our preparations to transform the National Lottery will be a once-in-a-lifetime type of project in the lottery industry, anywhere in the world. Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
Our approach
In Allwyn, the National Lottery will have an operator that has social value at its heart. We will raise more funding for Good Causes while running our own business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. That’s why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value framework, which is woven into the way we do business. We believe that lotteries must serve everyone across society, not just those who play. So whether as an employee, a supplier, a retailer, or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be powering good across the UK.
We are working to make the National Lottery truly accessible in a safe way, whether as a player, a retailer, or an employee. We are proud to have been a partner with Purple since 2021 to support our work to embed accessibility into everything we do. Purple has carried out an accessibility audit on our office in Watford, is working with us to have truly inclusive workplace policies, and we have exciting plans to do so much more to make our games, both in-store and online, safely accessible.
Come and help us shape what the future of the National Lottery could look like.
Media Clips
“I became an amputee in 2021 and I struggled to find my place back in the working world until Allwyn welcomed me with open arms. They have always focused on what I bring to the table and it is apparent that my disability is not what defines me within the company, but my skill. Allwyn has a noticeable strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, which makes me feel seen and like I have found a permanent home for my career.” Lorna Jeanes, Transition Co-ordinator.
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