Accounts Receivable Assistant
Accounts Receivable Assistant
Job Description
We are partnering with an innovative and expanding established company in Ilford. There's an opportunity within the finance function for a dedicated individual to join the busy office team on a full-time, permanent basis. This will be a varied role, collaborating with our Financial Controller and existing team members with general accounts payable tasks for a group of owner connected companies with an existing finance team.
About the role
The successful Accounts Receivable Assistant will be someone who has a naturally positive and ethical approach, with a high can-do attitude to problem solving and completing tasks.
- Accounts Receivable; supporting the finance department with all finance requirements within a busy and thriving office
- Raising invoices within terms and allocating payments when received
- Chasing outstanding payments
- Supporting existing staff with tasks, including setting up of payment runs, payroll support, data collections and data checking
- Maintaining and updating company systems (including Sage, Xero)
- Supporting the group with integrations of systems into existing company systems, overseen by Manager
- Matching records, data entry and auditing of existing data to ensure financial accuracy
- Developing strong relations with suppliers
- Communicate positively with customers, suppliers
- Office support, with a positive client-driven attitude
- Collect staff hours from the system
- Other ad hoc administrative duties
About the successful candidate
The successful candidate will be joining a busy accounts department and will be required to:
- Work with an experienced Financial Controller to achieve finance deliverables in a thriving busy finance team
- Has excellent all-round numeracy
- Has genuine passion to collaborate with colleagues to resolve day to day accounting challenges
- Take initiative and make day to day decisions in line with company targets
- Be highly organised
- Have strong accuracy and attention to detail
- Be able to work to deadlines on own initiative
- Be a key team player
- Possess high communication skills matched with a genuine care for the work they deliver
About the opportunity:
- Full training provided
- Immediate start available
- An experienced and all-inclusive culture
- Company offers staff discount and benefit schemes for over three thousand retailers including holidays that can save up to £2,000 per year after probation pass
- Cycle to work scheme
Required skills
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank Reconciliations
- Payroll
- Reconciliation
- Sales Ledger
Reference: 52620325
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