Generous holiday allowance
Charity / volunteering days
Income protection insurance

Credit Control Associate

Salary: Competitive plus bonus
Location: Slough/Heathrow Approach, UK
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

A great first step into a professional career

This is an opportunity to start your career in a role that really matters.

We’re hiring a Credit & Collections Associate to join our established Credit Control team. This role is designed for someone at the start of their career who wants to learn how a business works, build confidence working with customers, and develop valuable skills that can open doors across Finance, Operations, and Sales.

You don’t need previous Credit Control experience. You’ll be supported, trained, and guided - what matters most is your attitude, curiosity, and willingness to learn.


Why This Role Matters

Credit & Collections plays a vital role in keeping the business running smoothly.

The team sits between customers, Sales, and Finance, helping make sure:

  • Customer accounts are accurate
  • Invoices are understood
  • Payments are made on time
  • Issues are resolved early and professionally

When this works well, customers have a better experience and the business stays financially healthy. That means continued investment in people, products, and future opportunities.

Your work will directly support both our customers and the wider organisation - even from day one.


Why This Role Is a Brilliant Place to Start

Every customer interaction counts.
Every accurate record makes a difference.

In this role, you’ll help customers understand their accounts, answer questions, and resolve issues before they become problems. You’ll learn how professional conversations work, how teams collaborate, and how your actions contribute to the success of the business.

It’s a role where you can see the impact of your work, build confidence quickly, and gain experience that’s valued across many career paths.


About the Team You'll Join

You’ll join a friendly and supportive Credit Control team of around 12 Advisors and Senior Advisors.

The team is known for:

  • Helping each other succeed
  • Taking time to explain things clearly
  • Sharing knowledge and best practice
  • Supporting development at every level

Many people start their careers here and go on to roles in Finance, Sales, Operations, or other business areas. This team is often a launchpad for long-term progression.


What You'll Be Doing

With training and ongoing support, you’ll gradually take ownership of your responsibilities, including:

  • Supporting the management of customer accounts and invoices
  • Keeping clear, accurate notes so information is always up to date
  • Helping resolve invoice queries and payment questions
  • Speaking with customers in a professional, friendly way
  • Escalating issues when needed, with guidance from senior colleagues
  • Producing account updates and credit notes when requested
  • Working closely with Sales Order Processing to keep customer details accurate
  • Contributing to team targets and service standards
  • Getting involved in team projects and improvements

You’ll never be left to figure things out alone - learning and asking questions is encouraged.


What We’re Looking For

This role is open to people at the start of their career, and we’re deliberately flexible on background.

You could be a great fit if you:

  • Are leaving education or taking your first step into a professional office-based role
  • Have some exposure to customer-facing work - this could be part-time work alongside studies, retail, hospitality, call centre, volunteering, or similar
  • Enjoy learning new things and pick up information quickly
  • Are resilient and don’t give up when something feels unfamiliar at first
  • Like being organised and keeping things accurate
  • Communicate clearly and respectfully with customers and colleagues
  • Work well as part of a team and support shared goals
  • Want to build skills and grow over time, not just “do a job”

You don’t need previous Credit Control or finance experience.
A degree is welcome but not essential.

What matters most is your attitude - curiosity, willingness to learn, and the confidence to speak to people and ask questions when you’re unsure.


What You’ll Gain

  • A clear and supportive entry point into a professional business role
  • Practical skills in finance, customer communication, and organisation
  • Training and mentoring from experienced colleagues
  • Early responsibility with guidance and structure
  • Exposure to multiple teams across the business
  • Clear progression opportunities over time

Our Application Process

We keep things simple, supportive, and transparent.

Apply online
Submit your CV and answer a few short questions so we can learn more about you.

Follow-Up Interview
Choose the format that works best for you:

  • AI Interview (recommended): A short, on-demand video interview (around 15 minutes), completed at a time that suits you
  • Live Interview: A short Microsoft Teams call with one of our recruiters

After this, you’ll have a relaxed check-in with a Talent Partner. This isn’t another interview - it’s a chance to ask questions, learn more about the role, and understand what it’s like to build a career here.

You’ll also complete a few short online assessments. There’s nothing to prepare and no trick questions - they help ensure a fair and consistent process for everyone.

Group Assessment (Slough / Heathrow Approach office – date TBC 2025)
A friendly, in-person group session focused on teamwork and collaboration.

No preparation needed - just bring your enthusiasm.


If you’re looking for a meaningful first step, real responsibility, and a team that will support your growth from day one, this could be the start of something special.

As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.

IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.

That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.

They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.

We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.

These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.

IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.

This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:

Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.

Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.

Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.

We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.

Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.

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