This is an exciting opportunity for an immediately available Accounts Receivable Assistant to join a reputable company based near Witney, Oxfordshire on a temporary-permanent basis to start as soon as possible.
Client Details
The client is widely acknowledged within their field. This is an exciting time to join them as they look to expand their Accounts Receivable team. They operate a hybrid working policy of 1-2 day in the office and 3 from home.
Description
The Accounts Receivable Assistant will be responsible for:
- Correct allocation of cash receipts
- Raising sales invoices, ensure correct VAT accounting for small works and application customers
- Liaising with client contacts to pursue unpaid invoices and applications and issue debtor statements
- Liaising with commercial colleagues to resolve client queries
- Preparing monthly revenue journals
- Preparing monthly schedules to support balance sheet values for Amounts Receivable On Contracts (AROCs)
- Maintenance of controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of revenue reporting and balance sheet positions for AROCs and Trade Debtors
- Undertaking 'new' customer credit checks and ensure existing customers have a credit check completed as policy (and recorded on Dimensions). The credit check data is also to be shared with group entities
- Any other suitable duties as per management request to support the wider Finance team or wider teams
Profile
The Accounts Receivable Assistant will be/have:
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office software, especially Microsoft Excel, and accounting systems
- Previous demonstrable, practical relevant experience in a Finance environment that required regular reporting, possibly (but not necessarily) in a credit control environment, or in a management accounting environment
- Good Communicator and Team Worker. Out-going, comfortable on the telephone
- Highly motivated and able to work under their own initiative
- Persistent, resilient, organised, flexible, pragmatic
- Excellent attention to detail
- Solid grasp of double entry book-keeping and basic accounting principles
- Comfortable in a change environment (investment in new business systems is underway, role holder will need to adapt accordingly)
- Immediate availability or available at short notice
Job Offer
- Immediate start
- Hybrid working
- Permanent opportunity after temporary period