Sales Ledger Clerk

Robert Half Finance & Accounting are recruiting a new role of Accounts Receivable Assistant to cover a maternity leave in a huge household name in Leeds City Centre. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a well-known company and take your first steps into finance.

If you are a graduate with administrative or customer service experience this could be the role for you. YOU MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE!

Reporting into the Credit Manager, key duties of the Accounts receivable assistant will include:

• Proactively target and collect debtor balances ensuring that cash collections are maximised. Accurately log all collection activities in Oracle.
• Apply and allocate cash receipts promptly to ensure that customer accounts are current and up to date at all times.
• Invoice creation and document dispatch for multiple business streams and systems. Ensure that revenue has accurately posted to Oracle from feeder systems.
• Ensure that all revenue impacting credit notes have the appropriate levels of approval and are filed securely for audit retrieval.
• Identify customer billing queries and disputes and work closely with the business to ensure prompt resolution and collection of funds.
• Monitor and minimise unapplied and unidentified cash receipts ensuring that open items are applied, refunded or billed.
• Request credit checks on new and existing prospects, working closely with external insurance partner and internal Sales and Finance teams.
• Prepare and reconcile advertising risk exposure reports on a regular basis. Review pro-forma billing to ensure that pre-pay clients have paid prior to transmission.
• Assist the Head of Transactional Processing and Accounts Receivable Manager with the preparation of cash-flow forecasts and cash recovery to ensure targets are achieved.
• Follow and enforce operational controls and procedures ensuring full audit compliance.
• Ensure that Accounts Receivable deadlines are respected, KPI's are achieved and assist the Accounts Receivable Manager with month end reporting and processing.
• Review the status of overdue items and escalate debtor or revenue risk to the Head of Transactional Processing and Accounts Receivable Manager.
• System testing support for projects, defect fixes and enhancements
• Provide operational support as required across the Transactional Finance team

To be considered for this role we are looking for candidates with the following:

• Previous experience in admin/billing
• Progressive and forward thinking
• Good external stakeholder management

This role is a 14 month contract and has a 60/40 working pattern

In return, the successful candidate will receive the following:

£23,000 - £24,000 base salary

25 days holidays

Hybrid working environment

Household company

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