Hays Credit Management is an award winning national specialist division dedicated exclusively to the recruitment of credit management professionals, at all levels, in the public and private sectors.

We are exclusive corporate partners with the Institute of Credit Management, offering members an enhanced, dedicated recruitment service, and providing invaluable careers advice and support.

Our consultants are all Affiliate Members of the ICM, and are experts in the credit management industry. We understand the demands of this challenging environment and the skills required to thrive within it. Our consultants all have extensive market knowledge and established relationships with key credit control professionals.

Our candidate registration process is also unrivalled, including face-to-face screening interviews and a comprehensive credit control skills test developed exclusively for us by the ICM.

Whether you are looking to further your career in credit management, strengthen your own existing team, or simply like an overview of the market, it pays to speak to the market leaders.

For more information, visit www.hays.co.uk

Brethertons LLP is one of the largest firms of solicitors in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, employing over 200 people and operating from offices located in Banbury, Bicester, London and Rugby.

The firm is one of the top firms in the South East of England in the field of debt recovery. The firm handles high-volume caseloads delivering exceptional service levels by means of its personal account management approach and innovative, dedicated case management systems.

Firm-wide, bespoke, dedicated case management systems provide clients with ‘real-time’ access to their debt recovery progress, complemented by end-to-end dedicated account management.

The firm is renowned for its awareness of industry trends and the way it responds by developing new services to fulfil client needs. Fixed price litigation methodology gives clients cost-certainty.

Key sectors include vending, education/accommodation (recovery of student accommodation arrears, tuition, examination fees, etc), and multi-national manufacturing. The debt recovery team at Brethertons specialises in the return of goods and assets, and has a niche Insolvency team that can advise on all aspects of administration, liquidation and winding up procedures.

Rimilia specialise in the automation of Cash Allocation through their award winning software Alloc8 which was recognised by the ICM in 2011 as Innovation of the Year at the annual awards.

Rimilia are proud to be a corporate partner of the ICM and are committed to excellence and driving professionalism in Credit Management.  Automating cash allocation not only creates efficiency and speeds up applying cash to the Sales Ledger, it also ensures compliance requirements are exceeded, control is improved which all results in a cleaner more up to date ledger from which Credit Controllers can work from.  This ensures customers that are truly overdue are the ones that are targeted for collection actions which improves customer service, reduces Debtor Days and increases job satisfaction, all leading towards World Class processes and ultimately QICM accreditation.

For more information, visit www.rimilia.com

Coface enables companies to develop in a safer environment.

Coface’s mission is to protect companies against customer insolvency. In fulfilling this role, we make use of key financial data for identifying and understanding particular risks, providing suitable insurance cover and lastly, paying out claims.

However, Coface believes that anticipating and preventing the risk of non-payment in the first place is key; helping clients every day to take the right decisions to avoid making claims.

Coface has been supporting the development of trade since 1946 and is now a worldwide leader in domestic and export credit insurance with 35,000 clients. Our 4,600 employees provide a local service in 66 countries. Rated by Fitch and Moody’s, Coface offers financial strength, stability and peace of mind.*

Coface operates out of several locations in the United Kingdom and from Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, therefore ensuring that expert credit management advice and support is readily available to businesses locally.

For more information, visit www.cofaceuk.com

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies with annual revenue of about $4.5 billion.  SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.

SunGard’s AvantGard Receivables (GETPAID) solution offers credit risk analysis, credit scoring, collections management, dispute resolution, and cash application software.  The solution helps corporations consolidate data from multiple in-house systems, drive workflow and provide connectivity to a trading partners including credit data providers.  The technology is supported by a full range of deployment options as well as services, including managed cloud services and is delivered by a team of domain experts.

For more information, visit www.sungard.com/avantgard.

Key IVR are proud to have joined the Institute of Credit Management’s Corporate partnership scheme.  The ICM is a recognised and trusted professional entity within credit management and a perfect partner for Key IVR.  We are delighted to be providing our services to the ICM to assist with their membership collection activities.

Key IVR provides a suite of products to assist companies across the Europe with credit management.  Our service is based around giving the end-user the means to make a payment when and how they choose.  Using automated collection methods, such as a secure telephone payment line (IVR), web and SMS allows companies to free up valuable staff time away from typical debt collection. 

As well as inbound payment services, Key IVR provides a state-of-the-art outbound platform delivering automated messages by voice and SMS.  In a credit management environment, these services are used to cost-effectively contact debtors and connect them back into a contact centre or automated payment line.

For more information, visit www.keyivr.co.uk