Accounts Assistant
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £25000 – £28000/annum Plus excellent company benefits
Accounts Assistant
Full time permanent role
Mon-Fri 40 hours per week – during standard office hours
Burgess Hill area – office based role. Due to rural workplace location it is essential to be a driver and have your own transport – plenty of free parking available on site. Beautiful countryside office location.
Salary: £25000-£28000 per year plus very good company benefits.
Excellent opportunity to join a very stable, secure and highly established business as they seek to recruit an additional permanent accounts assistant to join their friendly team. This role is approx 35% credit control based and around 65% general accounts based.
The role:
As a member of a four person finance team the main responsibility of the role is to implement and manage all the credit control processes from invoice generation to ensuring collection of monies from customers within trading terms. The role also involves some general accounting duties in support of the purchase and nominal ledgers. My client aims to ensure that their customers are delighted with their service and a polite, effective credit control function is an important part of the customer experience.
Essential Experience/ Skills / Competencies
* Excellent telephone manner
* Excellent communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Willing to learn
* Process driven
* Works well as a team player
* Comfortable completing tasks at all levels
* Good computer skills
* Previous credit control experience
* Previous accounts experience
Duties and responsibilities:
* Sales ledger invoicing is up to date in order to ensure timely customer billing
* Sales ledger incoming payments are up to date in order to ensure accurate debtor reporting.
* Action credit control procedures in order to keep debtor days as low as possible.
* Sending statements and reminder letters to customers.
* Calling overdue customers to establish any reason for non payment and/or payment date.
* Managing process of putting customer accounts on stop and liaising with debt collection agency when necessary
* Dealing with customer invoice queries.
* Maintain sales ledger to ensure accurate debtor reporting
* Bank reconciliations
* Processing of supplier invoices
* Supplier statement reconciliations
This is an excellent local opportunity to work within a highly established business with a great reputation for providing a secure, stable and friendly working environment.
Please apply now for immediate consideration!
Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job
