Sales Ledger Officer

Through continued growth our client is looking for an experienced Sales Ledger Officer to join their small team.

Main aspects of the role are -

To ensure that sales income is accurately and efficiently invoiced, accounted for, collected, reported and to provide collaborative Finance support to the Sales Department.

• Generate sales invoices and transactions in the accounting system that are imported from the traffic system for a range of clients, accurately, on the correct template and to timetable.
• Reconcile sales invoicing across systems and to the control accounts.
• Effectively and with sensitivity, collect debts, working closely with Sales.
• Check and prepare monthly and ad hoc debtor statements.
• Resolve queries from clients and collect debt by phone and email.
• Operate the credit collection process and calculate the bad debt provision to policy.
• Post receipts from bank accounts daily into the debtor’s ledger and update the debtor’s ledger and credit control reports for Sales.
• Import and reconcile Stripe receipts into Income and reconcile bank accounts.
• Reconcile and post transactions daily into bank accounts, accurately and promptly.
• Reconcile daily cashbook and control accounts.
• Calculate and prepare the monthly sales commission calculations for review and approval by the Commercial Director and Finance.
• Review and approve finance approvals in the sale system
• Support other Finance area (such as purchase ledger) as required and for absence cover. This includes transaction posting, reconciliation, analysis and reporting.

Essential Skills

• AAT or other accountancy qualification (accountancy trainee), or qualified by experience.
• A minimum of 3-4 years’ experience of working in a Sales Ledger position or a position that includes sales ledger.

• Sound understanding of double entry, accounts structure and journals
• Strong accounting reconciliation skills.
• Must be organised and able to work under tight deadlines (daily, weekly, monthly).
• A good communicator able to write good and clear copy.
• Good Excel and IT skills (a quick learner & user of three software packages).

Training will be provided

Please note our client is a Christian Communications Global organisation

This is a hybrid position