AR Associate

Premier Foods; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Foods is hiring an Accounts Receivable Associate in Manchester. You will manage credit control, ensure timely payments, and collaborate with teams to improve financial processes. The role offers hybrid working and the chance to contribute to the success of the Accounts Receivable function.

Benefits

Company pension

Access to online discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in credit control and query resolution required.
• Good communication skills and attention to detail essential.
• Experience in a Shared Service Centre is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage credit control through various communication methods.
• Process claims and resolve issues with customers over invoices.
• Support improvements in systems and processes within the department.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Customer service

Problem solving

Tools

SAP

Job description

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AR Associate

Location: Manchester, GB

AR Associate

Manchester City Centre (Hybrid working - 2 days a week in office)

Full time, Perm

As our next Accounts Receivable Associate, you'll be responsible for specific sales ledger accounts, ensuring timely payments, validating and processing deductions (including commercial ones), and managing all associated queries. Your role is to provide a professional and cooperative end-to-end service to both our internal and external customers in line with Premier Foods values and promote best practices in customer service. Your remit will include working collaboratively with other teams in PBS and the wider business to achieve targets.

Your day-to-day activities will include proactively managing credit control through email, phone, customer portals, or face-to-face meetings, ensuring timely processing of claims and deductions, following up with the business to validate or invalidate queries and claims promptly, building and maintaining positive relationships with the sales team, internal colleagues, and the wider business, resolving issues with customers over disputed invoices, and updating SAP daily with collection and claim activities.

Furthermore, within this role, you will be instrumental in contributing to improvements in systems, procedures, and practices within the department to ensure efficient and effective business operations. You will support the implementation of new processes to maximize financial returns and minimize risk and be involved in small-scale projects such as user acceptance testing and creating procedural documentation.

There is an opportunity to make a significant impact in this role and be a key player in driving the success of the Accounts Receivable function at Premier Foods.

The Key Requirements...

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience working within a credit control and/or query resolution role
• Performance driven and keen to exceed expectations
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to deliver your targets and understand end to end processes
• Good attention to detail, the ability to multitask and work under pressure
• System knowledge of SAP
• Experience of working in a Shared Service Centre

The Benefits and Perks...

• Company pension
• Access to online discounts via our online Hamper platform

A great British food company

Premier Foods is one of Britain’s biggest listed food companies, employing over4,000 colleagues at 13 manufacturingsites and offices up and down the country.

Many of our brands have been part of UK lifefor more than a century and you’ll find them in 90% of British households.

At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticityandindividuality.We aim to ensure all existingand futurecolleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to workno matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in.Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.