Cash Allocation and Reporting Executive

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational publisher in Oxford is looking for a Credit Controller to manage and allocate customer payments in line with company policies. You’ll work with Cashiers to reconcile payments and compile daily cash reports while ensuring up-to-date account information. The ideal candidate has experience with multi-currency environments, strong Excel skills, and a background in the publishing industry. This position offers a hybrid work model and numerous employee benefits, including generous holiday and pension contributions.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 12%

Travel to work schemes

Access to local discounts

Discretionary annual payment

Qualifications

• Experience dealing with large volumes in a multi-currency environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and workload management skills.
• Competent in Excel and handling large datasets.
• Knowledgeable about meaningful metrics for reporting.

Responsibilities

• Identify and allocate payments within credit control policies.
• Reconcile payments with customer accounts.
• Prepare month-end and quarterly reporting.
• Compile daily cash and audit reports.
• Work with the Credit and Collections team.

Skills

Experience in multi-currency environment

Excellent people skills

Competent with Excel

Knowledge of performance metrics

Experience with SAP

Experience in shared service environment

Knowledge of the publishing industry

Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)

Job description

You will be responsible for identifying and allocating all monies paid to Oxford University Press within credit control policies and procedures, to ensure that all customer accounts are up to date within agreed SLAs. This includes all transactional activity such as payment traces and corrections, refunds and internal/external transfers, and in addition, you will support in all departmental reporting requirements.

Duties include:

• Working closely with Cashiers to receive post and allocate all sales ledger receipts.
• Reconcile payments and transfers posted to the sales ledger with customer accounts to maintain up-to-date and accurate sales information, and timely identification of variances.
• Prepare reconcile and post all approved JV vouchers, either within the ledger or outside of the ledger.
• Compiling of all daily cash and audit reporting for internal controls and management review.
• Preparation of all month end and quarterly reporting for period end closes, as well as management information against performance of the Credit and collections team.
• Collating of data and record keeping of all third party compliant and sanction payment requirements.
• Work with Credit and Collections team to obtain and collate information to ensure timely and correct allocation.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• Experience of dealing with large volumes in a multi-currency environment.
• Excellent people and workload skills.
• Competent with Excel and handling large data.
• Awareness of meaningful metrics to use to manage team resources and to report on team and business performance.
• Experience of SAP.
• Experience of working in a shared service and/or Centre of Excellence environment.
• Experience and knowledge of the publishing industry.
• Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

In the region of £26,000 dependent on skills and experience