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We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.
We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.
We'll broaden your horizons
Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you'll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you'll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.
We'll help you succeed
Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.
You'll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.
This role is responsible for ensuring that the Accounts Receivable team function operates effectively by ensuring accurate and timely processing of cash, and other receivables related duties, to ensure debtor ledgers are accurate.
The role is based in Gatwick and the Finance team currently operate a hybrid solution, with office attendance mandatory a minimum of twice a week.
Reporting into the Credit Control Manager, you will:
- Manage team performance to ensure that work is completed to a high standard and on time.
- Daily reconciliations and checks of key areas, including reporting of issues to line manager and other interested parties.
- Prepare and distribute key information to stakeholders, including but not limited to daily cash reporting, legal action success rates, credit card receipt analysis and ServiceNow ticket analysis.
- Have overall responsibility for maintenance of Accounts Receivable area on Insite, the firm's intranet.
- Liaise between parties in legal cases passed through the team and provision of timely updates to key stakeholders.
- Improve existing processes where possible and develop new ones ensuring process guides are kept up to date.
- Full training of team when new processes or process amendments approved.
- Support with automation development.
- Partake in regular meetings with other key stakeholders, both internal and external, to discuss any issues and/or areas for improvement.
- Team appraisals and objective setting.
- Review and approval of daily exchange difference write-off.
- Approval in Workday of processes, including but not limited to direct debit runs, sundry Invoices and credit notes, unpaid cheques, client/audited entity refunds, client/audited entity settlement runs and P11D invoicing.
- Have overall responsibility for member firm debt management, including but not limited to submission of invoices to relevant entity, responding to and resolution/referral of queries, debt collection, including issue of statements/summaries monthly and when requested, escalation as and when necessary to CCO's and/or ILP's and liaison with the BDO LLP Accounts Payable function where necessary.
- Have overall responsibility for BDO LLP Sundry debt management, including but not limited to submission of invoices to relevant entity, responding to and resolving/referral of queries, debt collection, including issue of statements/summaries as and when required and escalation when necessary to managers and/or partners.
- Have overall responsibility for BDO Services debt management, including but not limited to submission of invoices to relevant entity, responding to and resolving/referral of queries, debt collection, including issue of statements/summaries as and when required and sscalation when necessary to managers and/or partners.
- Have overall responsibility for investigation into unidentified receipts.
- Have responsibility for operation of Unidentified Client Monies Account, ensuring that all documentation is complete and filed, complying with relevant regulations.
- Be the main point of contact for external auditors in relation to Accounts Receivable matters.
- Have responsibility for ensuring that AR related items on the bank reconciliation are reviewed and cleared.
- Monthly weekend reconciliations as and when required.
You'll be someone with:
- The ability to follow a structured process to ensure compliance but able to work on own initiative to resolve queries promptly and accurately, adding value to existing processes as appropriate.
- Numeracy and attention to detail skills.
- The ability to prioritise own workload to meet deadlines from manager and/or other senior members of the Finance team.
- The ability to manage and organise a team to ensure excellent operational support to the Finance team and other key stakeholders.
You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.
At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.
We're in it together
Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.
Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.
We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we