Interim Accounts Receivable Specialist

Astute Recruitment Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Astute Recruitment Ltd is working with a Nottingham-based business to hire an Interim Accounts Receivable Specialist. The role targets aged debt reduction, complex query resolution, and ownership of AR issues until completion.

The successful candidate will have experience in Accounts Receivable, Credit Control or Order-to-Cash, and be comfortable analysing data to identify root causes and improvements. This is an interim contract based in Nottingham.

Qualifications

• Experience in Accounts Receivable, Credit Control or Order-to-Cash.
• Ability to investigate aged debt and customer queries.
• Comfort with data analysis and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Reduce aged debt and resolve complex customer queries.
• Investigate invoice disputes and pricing/billing issues to resolution.
• Own outstanding queries and drive process improvements in AR.

Skills

Accounts Receivable

Credit Control

Order-to-Cash

Problem solving

Tools

ERP system

Excel

Job description

Nottingham Interim Contract £35,000 doe

We're currently recruiting for an Interim Accounts Receivable Specialist to join a growing business based in Nottingham. This is not a standard Credit Control position. We're looking for someone who can come into an existing ledger, understand what is driving aged debt and outstanding queries, and take ownership of resolving issues through to completion.

The role will suit an experienced Accounts Receivable, Credit Control or Order-to-Cash professional who enjoys getting into the detail, investigating problems and improving the way things are done. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AR professional who enjoys problem-solving, improving processes and making a tangible difference to an existing ledger.

The role:

• You'll be responsible for helping to reduce aged debt, resolve complex customer queries and identify opportunities to improve the underlying AR processes.
• Your responsibilities will include:
• Investigating customer queries and invoice disputes through to resolution
• Working with internal teams to resolve issues around pricing, purchase orders, billing and credits
• Taking ownership of outstanding queries rather than simply passing them between departments
• Identifying recurring issues and investigating their root causes
• Monitoring aged debt and unallocated cash and providing regular progress reporting
• Analysing AR trends and identifying accounts requiring further attention
• Supporting the reduction of aged debt and improving cash collection
• Identifying weaknesses, inefficiencies and gaps within existing AR processes and controls
• Developing clearer processes and ownership around query management
• Working collaboratively with Sales, Customer Service, Operations, Logistics and Finance
• Supporting wider finance process improvement activity
• Producing accurate reports and analysis using Excel

About you:

We're looking for someone with proven experience within Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Sales Ledger or Order-to-Cash, ideally at Senior or Analyst level.

You'll need to be comfortable working with data and have a genuine ability to investigate why an issue has occurred and find a solution, rather than simply carrying out the transaction.

Experience in the following would be particularly useful:

• Aged debt analysis and recovery
• Complex query and dispute resolution
• Cash allocation / unallocated cash
• AR reporting and analysis
• Root cause analysis
• Process improvement
• Process mapping or development of procedures
• Working cross-functionally with non-finance teams
• Intermediate Excel
• Experience of an ERP system

Other roles you may have applied for: Senior Accounts Receivable Clerk, AR Analyst / Accounts Receivable Analyst, Credit Control Analyst, Order to Cash Specialist, Finance Analyst - AR, Transactional Finance Analyst, Revenue Analyst, Collections Analyst