Sales Ledger Assistant

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Barnsley; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A thriving business in South Yorkshire is looking for a Sales Ledger Assistant to ensure accurate invoicing and payments collection. The role involves generating invoices, reconciling payments, and managing credit note requests. Candidates should be proficient in Excel, possess excellent communication skills, and ideally have experience with SAGE. The position offers hybrid working, 25 days annual leave, and various benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Hybrid working

Health and wellbeing programme

Referral bonuses

Career progression opportunities

Free on-site parking

Qualifications

• Experience working in a Sales Ledger Assistant position or in a similar role.
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to adhere to deadlines and deliver required information timely.

Responsibilities

• Generating accurate invoices for a range of customers.
• Reconciling hours delivered with hours billed in SAGE.
• Processing remittances and reconciling payments against invoices.

Skills

PC literate with good Excel skills

Adhering to deadlines

Excellent verbal communication

Organisational skills

Experience in a similar role

SAGE 50 Accounts experience

Flexible approach to workload

Tools

SAGE 50 Accounts

Job description

Sewell Wallis are working with a thriving business based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, who recruiting for a Sales Ledger Assistant on a full-time permanent basis, due to ongoing growth.

The Sales Ledger Assistant will play a crucial role in ensuring the accurate production, distribution and recording of sales invoices, as well as the timely collection of payments, all while meeting agreed deadlines.

What will you be doing?

• Generating accurate invoices for a range of customers, following agreed billing formats and deadlines.
• Reconciling hours delivered via a rostering system with hours billed in SAGE, ensuring any discrepancies are resolved swiftly.
• Managing credit note requests, invoice adjustments, and corrections with precise SAGE input for management review.
• Processing remittances and reconciling payments against invoices, identifying and addressing any variances.
• Monitoring and reconciling standing orders and automated payments for accurate account management.
• Reconciling payments as appropriate to invoicing to ensure prompt follow up.
• Monitoring, reconciling and reviewing all standing order and direct debit payments ensuring accurate account management.
• Producing debtor reports in line with our credit control policy for management review.
• Ad-hoc finance tasks to support the wider team where required.

What skills are we looking for?

• PC literate with good Excel skills.
• The ability to adhere to deadlines and deliver required information in a timely manner.
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, multitask and work to deadlines.
• Experience working in a Sales Ledger Assistant position or in a similar role.
• SAGE 50 Accounts experience is highly desirable.
• A flexible approach to workload and tasks dependent on departmental requirements at the time.

What's on offer?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working.
• Health and wellbeing programme.
• Reward and recognition platform - wide range of non salary benefits.
• Referral bonuses.
• Career progression opportunities.
• Free on-site parking.

Apply below to avoid missing out on this fantastic opportunity!

Or for more information please contact Lawrie Bacon.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.