Description
The Organisation
Since 2007, we've been doing things differently here at Spark. Spark is the leading multi-utility supplier built around the property industry; working with letting agents, social landlords and homeowners, to provide hassle-free, essential utilities.
Spark serve over 450,000 customer accounts - and are growing fast. Today, Spark have a turnover of £200m+ and over 400 staff based at their offices in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, Edinburgh and Horsham in Sussex.
Spark has been named as the fastest growing company in Scotland and 23rd fastest growing in the UK by the Sunday Times FastTrack 100 and, on top of that, is included in the list of 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain by the Telegraph. Spark are one of the 1000 fastest growing business in Europe according to the FT.
Purpose of the Role
Cash generation is critical to a rapidly growing business, and as such understanding how to maximise cash collection, forecast accurately and define the company’s collection strategies is of critical importance to Spark. This senior opportunity is newly created as a high profile role to work across collections, finance and the business to optimise collections performance and drive in depth insight to manage the business.
Key Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of this role are to provide support to analyse and improve cash collection across all paths of the business. To work with the collections teams to obtain information around the execution of collections strategies as well as provide operational insight to key processes. There will be various improvement projects with in the remit of this role first to identify high value issues and form a plan and structure to tackle improvement objectives.
Knowledge & Experience
Technical Skills
Essential:
- Experience in an analysis and reporting role
- Ability to continually drive improvement in insight and analysis
- Experience of collections
- Preparation and of KPI’s
- Operational understanding of a collections function
- Good knowledge of Power BI, Excel and power point
- Ability to drive and shape analysis and ad hoc pieces of work
Desirable:
- A good eye for detail
- Experience of forecasting
- Worked in or had interaction with a finance function
- Energy sector collections experience
- An excellent team player
Character and Personal Qualities
- Thrives on challenges and making a difference
- Ability to approach your work with a “can-do” attitude
- Highly collaborative
- Intellectually curious and professionally sceptical
- Continually challenging to reach the route cause
- Tenacious with a drive to succeed
- You understand the importance of large-company protocols
- Excellent time and task management skills
- Able to communicate effectively with staff at all levels in the organisation
What to do next?
For a confidential discussion, please contact Stephanie Livingston on [email protected]