Accounts Receivable Assistant

Genuine Parts Company; Bradford; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company seeks an Accounts Receivable Assistant to join a growing finance team in Bradford. This role involves processing payments, reconciling data, and liaising with customers. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and mathematical skills, working effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Assertive but tactful manner.
• Organized and methodical approach.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Processing cheques through scanning software.
• Reconciling cheque data to the MAM system.
• Managing master data within scanning software.

Skills

Good communication skills

Calmness under pressure

Good negotiation skills

Good mathematical skills

Administrative and computer skills

Job description

Alliance Automotive Group is a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Group, a US listed company and the world’s largest distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The group has global revenues of US$ 18 Billion with operations in North America, Europe and Australasia. The UK Group has annualised sales of c.£700m.

The UK Group is a dynamic business growing both organically and by acquisition. The UK Group currently operates from over 200 locations with a central UK finance and administration function based in Bradford.

The Position

The Credit Control manager oversees a team of both geographically dispersed and centrally based credit controllers. The continued growth of the group is as such that there is now a need to increase the central team of 14 staff to include a 2nd Accounts Receivable Assistant.

The accounting system is an industry specific package called MAM. This is a windows system and is intuitive for users familiar with any other windows based accounting package. Training will be provided as required.

Areas of responsibility will include:

• Processing cheques through a cheque scanning software program

• Reconciling the cheque scanning data to the data uploaded into MAM

• Allocation of payments on accounts • Dealing with payment/allocation queries

• Investigating and correcting any differences that may have been identified by the bank

• Managing master data within scanning software and updating as appropriate

• Liaising with internal & external customers

• Processing and maintaining Direct Debit database

• Minimising unallocated cash on accounts by regularly reviewing unallocated report

The ideal candidate is likely to have:

• good communication skills • an assertive but tactful manner

• calmness under pressure,

• an organized and methodical approach

• the ability to work to strict deadlines

• good negotiation skills • the ability to explain financial matters firmly and clearly

• good mathematical skills

• administrative and computer skills

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Alliance Automotive Group is an equal opportunities employer.