Accounts Receivable/Collections Specialist
Working Hours:
9am-5pm, Monday-Friday
Pay Rate:
£12.53 per hour
Job Description:
Our client is looking for a detail-oriented Accounts Receivable/Collections Specialist to join their finance team. The successful candidate will manage the accounts receivable and collections processes efficiently, ensuring accurate recording of customer payments and proactive management of debtor balances.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Payment Recording: Record customer payments and ensure correct allocation to customer accounts.
- Debtor Management: Proactively chase debtor balances.
- Customer Information Maintenance: Maintain accurate customer information.
- Transaction Input: Input transactions into the finance system.
- Reconciliations: Undertake reconciliations and other year-end/month-end tasks as required.
- Audit Preparation: Assist the Financial Accounting and Controls Manager with year-end audit preparation.
- Financial Controls Support: Provide efficient and effective support in the operation of financial controls.
- System Monitoring: Monitor and reconcile the finance system, including access rights and HR data.
- Mailbox Management: Manage requests sent to the finance mailbox, triaging queries, resolving, redirecting, and escalating as appropriate to ensure prompt and accurate resolution.
- Ad-Hoc Projects: Support ad-hoc projects such as reviewing access rights for segregation of duties and licensing requirements.
- Process Improvement: Identify areas for financial process improvement and make proposals to management for implementation.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate delivery.
- Control Environment Support: Maintain the robustness of the finance system and support the control environment.
- Records Maintenance: Maintain up-to-date records within the finance system, including employees, budget holders, and project structures.
- Approval Workflows: Maintain worker relationships in the system to ensure financial approval workflows are maintained.
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor and collect records of gifts and hospitality monthly to ensure compliance with the Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy, and prepare a quarterly report for the Audit and Risk Committee.
Skills and Experience:
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work through large volumes of data with a high level of accuracy.
- Highly numerate with advanced Excel skills.
- IT literate with a strong understanding of MS computer packages.
- Experience working in a finance department.
- Ability to handle confidential data responsibly.
- Proactive, flexible, and responsible with strong time management skills.
- Effective team player with the ability to use initiative while managing own workload.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize work.
- Basic understanding of VAT and taxation rules.
- Previous experience using Microsoft finance solutions.
- Willingness to undertake further training to enhance financial knowledge, skills, and qualifications.
Apply now to join a progressive company and take the next step in your finance career!