Billings Specialist - ASAP Start - Visual Effects
I am looking for a Billings Specialist to join one of my clients on an interim basis initially for 6 months.
My client is world-leading in visual and immersive experiences. You will join their friendly finance team in the heart of London and lend them your knowledge and expertise.
Key responsibilities
- Day to day credit management producing weekly debtor reports reconciling movements
- Negotiating payment plans, dealing with billing issues etc
- Sending Invoices out to clients and chasing unpaid invoices
- Liaising with customers and building strong relationships
- Maintaining UK sales ledger and ensure all bookings are posted on time
- Forecasting customer receipts for cashflow
- Contribute towards improving existing systems and processes to improve credit control and AR processes.
- Assisting with customer reconciliations
- Preparing the sales ledger information for Audit and assisting with the Year-End processes
- Ownership of customer invoicing process for the UK entity
- Experience of working with proforma invoices and customer deposits
- Helping with ensuring that upstream processes have been completed to ensure a streamlined invoicing process
- Allocating payments from customers in an accurate and timely manner
- Working with shared inbox for customer billing enquiries
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to investigate and understand variances and underlying reasons.
- Meticulous attention to detail
- AAT or similar qualification
- Understanding of international banking (e.g. intermediary bank fees, foreign currency)
- NetSuite and SalesForce experience advantageous
- Experience of handling WIP advantageous
- Understanding of UK VAT from a sales perspective
- Excellent interpersonal skills to confidently liaise with various stakeholders outside of finance
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to provide industry-leading customer service to internal and external customers.
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