Sales Ledger Lead

Elegant Clutter Ltd; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bespoke service provider in the UK seeks a Sales Ledger Lead responsible for managing invoicing, credit control, debt management, and ensuring accounts accuracy. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and experience with Sage Accounts. Benefits include extra holidays for birthdays, a pension plan, and life cover. Join a family business that values creativity and ownership, and engage with clients to ensure smooth account management.

Benefits

Extra day holidays for birthday

Established family business

Pension

Life cover

Qualifications

• Experience in handling invoicing and credit control.
• Strong communication skills to work with clients and teams.
• Ability to reconcile accounts and manage debt effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create and send invoices while managing outstanding debts.
• Process daily cash allocation and update Sage accounts.
• Ensure sales ledger is accurate and reconciled.

Skills

Invoicing

Credit Control

Debt Management

Cash Allocation

Sage Accounts

Client Communication

Reporting

Tools

Sage Accounts

Job description

Vickers Neal Recruitment are delighted to be working with Elegant Clutter based at their site in Leamington Spa; we currently have an exciting opportunity for Sales Ledger Lead.

Elegant Clutter works with high‑end hotels and restaurants and provides a bespoke and outstanding service to clients both within the UK and overseas.

"At Elegant Clutter we believe that art can be anything. We also believe that anything is possible. So, we created Art Story, an international art consultancy that knows no limits. We are building a team that will help grow Elegant Clutter's art and sculpture business on a global scale."

Job Role:

Sales Ledger Lead's role is to ensure that a company's accounts are accurate and that all invoices are sent out. They also manage outstanding debts and provide creditors with VAT receipts.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Invoicing: Create invoices for sales, including taxes and VAT (ensure VAT & EORI number in place for EU & other countries).
• Credit Control: Work with the clients' accounts team to manage debts and monitor overdue payments.
• Debt Management: Follow up with customers who have outstanding debts to ensure payment is made.
• Cash Allocation: Process the cash received on a daily basis from Lloyds Discounting, Lloyds Bank (Current A/c) to Sage Accounts and Database.
• Update Sage: Update client correspondence in Sage, with details of debt chased etc.
• Reconciliation: Ensure that the sales ledger is reconciled and that all payments are accounted for.
• Download monthly statement and supplementary reports and reconcile within Sage Accounts. Post any Bank Charges or adjustments.
• Client Statements: Produce client statements and send out at end of month, or when necessary.
• Client Onboarding: Set up new clients and input their contact data from PO or contract.
• Credit Notes (Refunds and Forex Adjustments): Raise credit notes for refunds and foreign exchange adjustments to client accounts, using the Credit Note sign‑off form.
• Communication: Work with the PMs & Sales team to ensure projects are invoiced and to keep the relationship with the client's account team to solve problems.
• Reporting: Daily – Invoicing Tracker/Weekly – Aged Debtors / Overdue Debt; Brand, Group & Category Report Monthly – PM against Turnover; Client Turnover; Category Analysis (industry type), Month End Sales Reconciliation.

Client Reports:

• Client Database: Update with relevant details.
• Stock Take: Quarterly and annual stock take.
• Approving PO on Database System: Checking PO against project budget and approving on internal database system.

Benefits:

• Extra day holidays for birthday.
• Established family business.
• Pension.
• Life cover.

If you think you have the imagination and passion to make a difference and feel engaged in Elegant Clutter's values which are to take ownership, find a way, and truly consider yourself to be a real people person, then please forward your application via the contact details provided.

Upon application your CV will be sent to Vickers Neal Recruitment and Elegant Clutter ONLY. We do NOT send CVs to third parties.