About us:
GroupNexus is an established, leading operator in the parking management sector. We are innovative, industry leading and a forward-thinking company that has an exceptional culture with strong values and a hunger for growth. We are a company with a real family feel and we want people who thrive on responsibility and have a strong desire to grow and excel. The aim is simple: we seek like-minded, talented and ambitious individuals who want to be part of our exciting journey.
About you:
This role requires a highly organised person who has several years of accounts receivable experience and can support month-end reporting by ensuring accuracy and completeness of revenue recognition and client billing. The role will primarily provide first-hand support to the Finance Manager, with month-end customer analysis, income reconciliation, as well as providing support for the whole finance team to aid the effective running of the department.
About the role:
As part of a small but supportive team, the successful Assistant Accountant will have a range of
responsibilities across accounts receivable and income reconciliation analysis. This will involve
calculating invoices, matching receipts with outstanding invoicing, communicating with clients and
performing aged debtor reviews, chasing outstanding debt, reconciling bank accounts, preparing
income return. The role also requires close communication with our Account Management and
Sales team through a monthly analysis of unbilled labour and expenses, which support the income
reconciliation process.
Assistant Accountant responsibilities:
- Raising and issuing sales invoices based on contractual terms and ensuring the correct allocation of cash receipts to individual cash centres.
- Researching and investigating discrepancies in invoices to determine the accuracy of charges
- Matching payments to invoice amounts; ensuring timely payment of debts
- Handling customer inquiries regarding billing issues
- Ensuring payments are received within the agreed credit terms
- Chasing up overdue payments via telephone and email
- Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors
- Keeping detailed records of collection activities and conversations
- Resolving outstanding payments and sending customer statements
- Managing Accounts Receivable ledger and Accounts Receivable files
- Submitting fortnightly Aged Debtor reports to management to report on account receivable operations
- Processing and reconciling income received from various income sources, ensuring correct nominal codes are applied
- Ensuring incoming receipts are processed, recorded and reconciled on a weekly basis
- Investigating discrepancies and analysing income throughout the month.
- Preparing Journals with correct nominal coded and VAT code
- Creating monthly income reports for fund distribution to the clients.
- Reconciling bank accounts on a weekly basis
- Providing support for month-end closure
Desirable skills and experience
- Part qualified or finalist AAT (or qualified by experience)
- 5+ years' experience in a finance related role in a medium sized business
- Previous credit control experience
- Experience of assisting in the production of statutory, management reports and accounts
- Experience of analysing large volumes of data
- Intermediate level in Excel (Pivot table, Sorting, Filtering, Deduplication, VLOOKUP,
- Match, SumIf, Sumifs, Sumproduct, etc.)
- Previous experience in SAGE (50/200/Intacct) is essential. DocuSign / Concur /
- GoCardless / Stripe experience is also desirable.