Avenues is a place where people smile, laugh and grow – and achieve extraordinary things.
Our charity runs specialist services for autistic people, people with learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries and complex needs. We work across Hampshire, South East England, London, Hertfordshire, East Anglia and Shropshire.
We are well-respected by our professional stakeholders and loved by staff, families and people we support for the quality of what we do.
We are pleased to offer a new opportunity for a Sales Ledger and Credit Controller Supervisor to join our Finance department for a 6 month fixed term contract.
We offer great opportunities to balance work and home through our hybrid working model that enables home working and flexibility of working hours too.
In this role you manage transactions processing and credit control for one of our subsidiaries, lead credit control and systems administration pertaining to Ledgers and deal with general administration. You will also supervise the work of the Sales ledger/Credit Controllers.
- Be responsible for and oversee the accurate and timely issuing of all sales invoices.
- Ensuring that the accounting transactions for sales invoices and credit notes are promptly and accurately entered into the Access Dimensions accounting system.
- Maintain and implement a comprehensive schedule detailing the invoices to be raised each month for one of the subsidiaries.
- Check and ensure that all other billing schedules have been updated.
- Oversee system maintenance, debtor account code set up, reporting to Financial Services Manager on these matters.
- Complete billing schedules indicating all invoices are despatched accurately and on time.
- Supervise and support the work of the sales ledger/credit controllers including shadowing or attending service manager meetings.
- Ad hoc duties as required including providing cover for the team and the Financial Service Manager.
Please refer to the role profile for full requirements of experience, skills and knowledge needed to be considered for this role.
Our ideal candidate looks like this!
- 5 GCSE's (including English & Maths), AAT, Part qualified ACCA / Degree or any other similar qualification (essential).
- Experience in staff supervision and management of a medium sized team (essential).
- Have a minimum of 2-3 years' experience in a similar role (essential).
- Experience of computerised accounting packages, ideally, Access Dimensions; databases and MS Office Applications particularly Excel to intermediate level (essential).
- Working knowledge of bookkeeping double entry system and account reconciliation.
- Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise workloads to ensure deadlines are met, with the ability to be self-motivating and undertake tasks with minimum supervision.
- Have supervisory skills to be able to manage a staff team.
- Be a team player.
Your values should match ours:
Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.
Excellence: We don't settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.
Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.
Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.
Benefits you can expect!
- Flexible Working including working from home.
- 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years' service and after 5 years' service.
- Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
- Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal and employee assistance programme.
- Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
- Recommend a friend scheme.
- And more.
Why join us?
We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff.
As part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident Scheme", candidates who declare a disability, and meet the key criteria for this role, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.
Don't miss out on this great opportunity – we are looking forward to hearing from you today!
We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce so we would love to hear from anyone who feels is able to take those opportunities to the next level.You'll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions. We are committed to supporting our employees to achieve a good work-life balance and support flexible working including working from home.