Accounts Assistant - Receivables

SF Partners; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Company healthcare

Job summary

SF Partners in Birmingham is seeking an Accounts Assistant to join a growing finance team in an international logistics business. The role focuses on cash allocation, sales ledger reconciliations and maintaining accurate customer accounts, working closely with Credit Control and the operations team.

You will post receipts, manage multi-currency transactions (GBP, EUR, USD), and support bank reconciliations and month-end processes, helping ensure ledger accuracy and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in accounts receivable, sales ledger or cash allocation.
• Strong understanding of customer receipts and reconciliations.
• Experience with control accounts and bank reconciliations.
• Ability to handle multi-currency payments.
• Strong Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, PivotTables).
• Accurate numeracy and attention to detail.
• Investigate queries and resolve them through to conclusion.
• Proactive, collaborative approach.
• Experience in logistics or high-volume environments is useful.

Responsibilities

• Post and allocate customer receipts from remittances.
• Work across GBP, euro and USD transactions.
• Process exchange-rate differences, bank charges and write-offs.
• Reconcile customer statements and sales ledger control accounts.
• Support weekly and monthly bank reconciliations.
• Investigate unallocated cash and resolve payment discrepancies.
• Coordinate with Credit Control to resolve invoice queries.
• Co-ordinate and post contra-account entries.
• Process credit notes and ledger adjustments.
• Set up new customer accounts and apply agreed credit limits.
• Assist with month-end sales and income reconciliations.

Skills

Accounts receivable

Sales ledger

Cash allocation

Multi-currency handling

Excel skills

Attention to detail

Query resolution

Collaboration

Tools

PivotTables

VLOOKUPs

Job description

SF Partners are recruiting for an Accounts Assistant to join a growing finance team within an established international logistics business based in Birmingham.

This is an Accounts Receivable role focused on cash allocation, sales ledger reconciliations and maintaining accurate customer accounts. Working closely with Credit Control and the wider operations team, you'll help ensure receipts are posted correctly, queries are resolved and the sales ledger remains accurate and up to date.

What You'll Be Doing

• Posting and allocating customer receipts from remittances
• Working across GBP, euro and US dollar transactions
• Processing exchange-rate differences, bank charges and agreed write-offs
• Reconciling customer statements and sales ledger control accounts
• Supporting weekly and monthly bank reconciliations
• Investigating unallocated cash and resolving payment discrepancies
• Working with Credit Control and operations to resolve invoice queries
• Coordinating and posting contra-account entries
• Processing credit notes and other ledger adjustments
• Setting up new customer accounts and applying agreed credit limits
• Assisting with wider month-end sales and income reconciliations

What You'll Bring

• Previous experience within accounts receivable, sales ledger or cash allocation
• A strong understanding of customer receipts, remittances and reconciliations
• Experience of working with control accounts and bank reconciliations
• Confidence handling multi-currency transactions and payment differences
• Strong Excel skills, ideally including VLOOKUPs and PivotTables
• Good numerical accuracy and attention to detail
• The ability to investigate queries and follow them through to resolution
• A proactive, honest and collaborative approach
• Experience within logistics, transport, freight or another high-volume environment would be useful

This is not a traditional Credit Control role, so candidates will need practical experience of cash allocation and maintaining an accurate sales ledger rather than purely chasing overdue debt.

Due to the nature of the industry, candidates must be able to provide a clear five-year UK employment history as part of the security-checking process.

What You'll Get in Return

• Hybrid working, Some flexibility around working hours
• 31 days' holiday including bank holidays, Holiday loyalty scheme
• Company healthcare scheme
• Company sick pay
• Learning and development opportunities

This would suit someone who enjoys the detail behind Accounts Receivable and wants a role where they can take ownership of cash allocation, reconciliations and the accuracy of the wider sales ledger.