Location: Sale
Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 (pro rata)
Permanent - Part-Time - 25 hours per week
Job Role
To proactively oversee and manage the Debtors Ledgers to ensure prompt payment and to minimise bad debt. This role is and office based part time role for 25 hours a week.
Key Tasks
- Daily allocating cash receipts in a timely manner, across a number of bank accounts and debtors ledgers.
- Transferring receipts and using journals where payment has been received in to wrong bank account.
- Daily notification of invoicing to bank
- Chasing of payment for aged debt via telephone and email according to company policy, and as directed by the Finance Director
- Using Excel to organise sales ledger data to produce own prioritised debt chasing schedule.
- Sending out statements and reminder letters in a timely fashion
- Dealing with customer queries quickly and efficiently
- Updating PO references, sending copy invoices and proofs of delivery as required
- Uploading sales invoices to customer portals where required
- Liaising with internal contacts to resolve customer disputes/ account issues
- Building relationships with accounts payable staff at large accounts
- Recording of contacts, communications and actions
- Maintenance of customer record and housekeeping of customer ledger
- Monitoring of the 'accounts' inbox, assisting with distribution of workload across the team
- Producing 'move to legal' recommendations, and completion of follow up paperwork
- Liaising with and reporting to the bank
- Audit contact for sales ledger related queries
- Providing holiday cover for other team members
Required Experience
- Experience of all aspects of Sales Ledger maintenance and administration
- Experience of Invoice Discounting and working across multiple ledgers
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics NAV an advantage but not essential
Required Skills
- Good Excel skills, able to manipulate large amounts of data
- Understanding of how the credit control function impacts on company cash flow, customer relationships and future sales.
- Good organisational skills, able to prioritise workload and use own initiative.
- Excellent communicator who is confident making and receiving calls
- Team player who is able to quickly establish relationships
- Proactive approach to resolving queries and obstacles
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