Cash Application Specialist

Sedgwick; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Cash Application Specialist in Leeds, where you'll manage payments and contribute to process improvements. This pivotal role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and a supportive culture focused on career growth.

Benefits

Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private healthcare plan

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Voluntary benefits

Qualifications

• Experienced with financial software and hands-on accounts receivable.
• Understanding of general accounting principles.

Responsibilities

• Manage remote scanning of payments and post adjustments.
• Reconcile client payments and identify process improvements.
• Participate in team efforts to achieve goals.

Skills

Team player

Communication

Attention to detail

Analytical

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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Cash Application Specialist

Job Location: Leeds, United Kingdom

Job Type: Permanent

Remuneration: Competitive salary based on skills, experience, and qualifications

We have a new opportunity for a Cash Application Specialist to join our Credit Control team in Leeds.

The Credit Control team provides exceptional service across the UK, focusing on reducing debt and improving working capital.

We're looking for a motivated individual ready to make an impact in this newly created role as Cash Application Specialist. You'll manage remote scanning of payments, post zero pay and adjustments, research credit balances, reconcile client payments, and implement process improvements.

Reporting to the Head of Credit Control, you'll work closely with operational and finance teams.. This role is broad, challenging, and rewarding, requiring ownership, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Based in Leeds, the position offers flexible working in line with Sedgwick’s UK policy. If you're ready for a challenge, we want to hear from you!

Key duties

• Transfer creditsto past due balances or issue refunds.
• Manage Lockboxand remote scanning of payments.
• Post zero pay and adjustments.
• Research credit balances.
• Accuratelypost and reconcileclient payments.
• Apply incoming cash and cheques to customer accounts.
• Reconcile revenue accounts.
• Identify and implementprocess improvements
• Participate in team effortsto achieve goals.

The skills you will have when you apply:

• Team player, flexible, enthusiastic, innovative, and proactive.
• Experiencedwith financial software and hands-on accounts receivable.
• Understanding ofgeneral accounting principlesand ability to follow SOPs.
• Demonstratesintegrityand good judgement in handling confidential information.
• Strongcommunicationskills (written and verbal) and effective follow-up.
• Attention to detailand ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Excellentorganisationand time management skills.
• Analyticalskills and ability to quickly understand and solve issues.
• Intermediate skillsin Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

What we’ll give you for this role:

Remuneration & more

• Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications
• A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme
• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working 3 days in office and 2 work from home
• 35 hour week

Health & support

• Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions
• Life assurance Employee assistance programme for employee wellbeing
• Group Income Protection

Other benefits

• Voluntary benefits – dental cover, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, wellbeing and digital GP applications
• Discounts on various products and services

This isn't just a position, it's a pivotal role in shaping our industry

At Sedgwick, you won't just build your career; you'll cultivate a team of experts. Our Sedgwick University offering empowers you to excel as well as your team members, with the most comprehensive training program in the industry which includes more than 15,000 courses on demand, training specific to roles, and opportunities to continue formal education.

Together, we're not only reshaping the insurance landscape, we’re building a legacy of talent. Come and be a catalyst for change within our industry.

Next steps for you:

Think we'd be a great match? Apply now –we want to hear from you.

As part of our commitment to you, we are proud to have a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

After the closing date we will review all applications, and may select some applicants for an interview (which may be virtual, or in-person).

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Sedgwickis an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.