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Accounts Assistant

Oxby and Parke Recruitment
Posted 6 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Bicester, Oxfordshire OX26 2ZA, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • A global business is seeking a Finance Assistant for their finance team, focusing on Accounts Receivable/Sales Ledger.
  • Candidates should have at least 2 years of finance experience and ideally be part-qualified.
  • The role includes managing the debtors ledger, ensuring timely customer payments, and supporting the Treasury function.
  • The position offers a salary of £25,000 to £30,000, along with hybrid working options and generous holiday allowances.
  • The ideal candidate will possess strong Excel skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to improve processes while maintaining customer relationships.

The Company

A global business with a presence in the UK, Europe and the USA have an exciting opportunity to join their busy finance team as a Finance Assistant looking after the Accounts Receivable/Sales Ledger. The office is based within easy commutable distance from Bicester, Aylesbury, Thame and surrounds - you will require your own transport due to the location, and offers hybrid working once trained.

The Role

This is a busy role working within a small team providing direct support to the UK Financial Controller, managing the Sales Ledger, assisting with review of Credit Limits and providing support to the Treasury function.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Sales Ledger: Manage the debtors ledger, ensuring customer payments are made on time, building an approach to collection that strengthens the customer relationship, ownership of the aged receivables report and input into bad debt provision / bad debt write offs. Manage credit limits, ensure new customer creation takes place in a timely manner, and working with logistics to ensure that payments are receivable prior to shipment.
  • Treasury: Responsible for reconciling all banking on a daily basis depending on the account, and entity, ensuring that both payments and receipts are booked in the ERP, support the preparation of the bi-weekly cashflow, extracting the transactional data and categorizing and input.
  • Cover for the Accounts Payable activities during their absence.

About You

  • You will ideally be Part-Qualified or have 2 years + experience in finance.
  • Commercial awareness and ability to understand the impact on relationship with Customers.
  • Process improvement orientation and attention to detail.
  • Positive 'can do’ attitude and focus on timely completion of tasks with quality output.
  • Fluent English, both verbal and written.
  • Intermediate to Advanced Level in Excel, and eagerness to learn and improve.
  • Knowledge of business systems such as Microsoft NAV, Business Central or Dynamics 365 - specific training can be given.

The Package

  • Hybrid working (3 in/2 WFH).
  • Generous holiday allowance plus the option to earn more.
  • Excellent company culture.
  • Various insurances after probation.
  • Parking on site.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.