You will provide an efficient and robust AR service for various UK Business Units within a fast-paced, progressive shared service environment.

Client Details

My client are a world-leading manufacturer with a large transactional finance presence in Gloucestershire. Highly progressive, they recruit A1 calibre candidates and offer competitive salaries and good career opportunities.

Description

• Provide an efficient and robust AR service for various UK Business Units.
• Provide efficient, timely and accurate posting and allocation of receipts for AR ledgers.
• Ensure the Business Units have the required support and maintain robust communications.
• Comply with all legal and audit requirements.
• Ensure robust control of the receipts, postings, allocations and any queries is maintained, in line with Company processes and procedures.
• Compile monthly bank account reconciliations for distribution to Business Units.
• Research and resolve payment discrepancies and other related queries.
• Run reports for unallocated cash and analyse by age & customer.
• Prepare bank deposits for cheques received by post.
• Manual raising of invoices and credit notes.
• Releasing of billing blocks and releasing of sales orders.
• Have a proactive approach to obtaining remittances and allocation from Business Unit.
• Be responsible for month-end closing as per the structured worklist and to stringent deadlines.
• Collect data and prepare monthly KPI's.
• Able to cover for all business units for periods of absenteeism to maintain required service levels.
• Assist with Vendor creation.

Profile

Candidate skills & requirements

• Demonstrable experience of working within an Accounts Receivable or Cash Application team.
• Experience of working with and influencing key stakeholders of all levels.
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel.
• Previous experience of SAP System transactions and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrable experience of working within a Customer Service environment
• Excellent administrative skills.

Desirable

• Experience of KPI reporting.
• Excellent investigative skills that enable the individual to resolve unallocated cash on customer accounts.
• Full understanding of banking procedures.
• Able to competently reconcile bank accounts to systems for several business units.
• Educated to ALevel Standard, or equivalent.
• Accounting Qualification is most desirable
• Customer Service Qualifications & experience are preferred
• Relevant finance, business and/or account degree or equivalent experience and understanding is desired

Job Offer

This role will pay a competitive basic salary of £22-25,000.