Accounts Receivable Controller

Bucks & Berks Recruitment PLC; London; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm seeks an experienced accounts professional for their London office. The ideal candidate will manage customer credit risk and accounts receivable, ensuring accurate record-keeping and effective debt collection strategies while working in a small, dynamic team environment. This role offers a competitive salary along with benefits including free parking.

Benefits

Free parking

Benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in Accounts Receivable/Credit Control/Bookkeeping required.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer credit risk and accounts receivable ledger.
• Follow up on collections and maintain accurate records.
• Prepare month-end reconciliations for aged debtors.

Skills

Accounts Receivable

Credit Control

Bookkeeping

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Sage X3 ERP

Microsoft packages

Job description

Our client, a small UK office of a larger worldwide organisation, is looking for an experienced accounts professional to join their team.

This role would suit someone with accounts/bookkeeping experience with a bias towards Accounts Receivable/Credit Control.

The main purpose of the role is to manage customer credit risk and accounts receivable ledger, by proactively following up on all collections, accurate allocation processing and maintaining the accounts receivable ledger within the accepted period of settlement whilst also responsible for accurate GL account coding process and safe accurate keeping of records to support the accountant in providing a full financial accounting service.

Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm, office based. £33k - £38k plus free parking and benefits.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensuring customer credit terms are adhered to, to minimise risk to the company
• Generating statements & payment reminders, undertake all requirements to provide customers with the necessary information in relation to invoices & customer reporting
• Sending out weekly and or monthly statements to customers
• Preparation and submissions of debit order runs
• Monitor daily cash collections & allocations into systems
• Process all 'card' payments from customers
• Manage statement reconciliation. Undertake regular customer account reconciliations, ensuring timely collection of debts
• Reconcile and review all customer account open item reconciliations to ensure accuracy of reconciliations and payments to agreed credit terms
• Resolve balancing items ensuring accurate records are retained
• Follow up for non payment by telephone and email
• Manage month-end procedures for Accounts Receivable
• Prepare month end reconciliations for aged debtors & potential bad debt provision
• Accurately categorise suppliers invoices to correct GL code.

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience Accounts Receivable/Credit Control/Bookkeeping
• Excellent communication skills for verbal and written
• Highly self-motivated, and able to work both independently or as part of a team, managing your own workload and priorities
• Able to use and adapt to new computer-based systems including Microsoft packages and Sage X3 ERP (Training provided where required)
• Able to cope with pressure, working to deadlines and targets demonstrating a positive 'can do' attitude
• Strong attention to detail and ability to report accurately
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize
• Reliably meets performance targets and achieves goals

Please note that we will only contact those candidates that we assess as suitable for the positions we have currently available based on their experience, training, and skills. If we do not have anything suitable, we will not keep your CV for more than 30 days.

As an equal opportunity employer, Bucks and Berks Recruitment is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.