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Accounts Assistant - Accounts Receivable

Robert Half
Posted 7 hours ago, valid for 17 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Robert Half Finance & Accounting is partnering with a large football club in South London to recruit a Sales Ledger focused Accounts Assistant on a permanent basis.
  • The role requires a candidate with 2 years of experience in a finance team, specifically as an accounts assistant with a focus on sales ledger.
  • The salary for this position ranges from £28,000 to £32,000, with additional benefits including 25 days of annual leave, study support, and a discretionary bonus.
  • The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the end-to-end accounts receivable process and ensuring timely payments from customers.
  • Initially, the role requires working 5 days a week in the office for the first 6 months, transitioning to a hybrid model of 3 days in the office thereafter.

Robert Half Finance & Accounting are exclusively partnering with a Large London football club in South London to recruit a Sales ledger focused accounts assistant on a permanent basis .

Role:

Our client is looking to recruit a Sales ledger focused accounts assistant, on a permanent basis. In this role you will be responsible for the following duties:

    • Taking ownership of the end-to-end accounts receivable process
    • Establish a controlled two-way line of communication with Commercial and Events sales teams.
    • Maintain, prepare and post customer invoices and credit/debit memos ensuring careful accuracy and precision.
    • Reconcile payments received between issued invoices, bank and the general ledger.
    • Running a high-volume AR inbox, proactively and promptly resolving queries
    • Monitor customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities and ensure the business units are kept informed and appropriate action taken.
    • Ensure all account balances are paid, and debts are resolved in a timely manner by contacting delinquent customers via phone and email to secure payment.
    • Daily bank reconciliation for income received and updating of general ledgers.
    • Monthly Debtors control account reconciliation report to the senior management team.
    • Responsible for the monthly reconciliation of cash receipts and petty cash movements for the business and have ownership of the cash ordering and collections.
    • Implement controls and processes to ensure accurate and timely information is always available.
    • Assisting the management accountant with month-end and year-end processes, including provision of information to auditors.
    • Other ad hoc tasks as and when required by Head of Finance and Finance team, including assistance with expense claim processing and credit card reconciliations.

Profile:

The ideal candidate will have 2 years experience working within finance team, as an accounts assistant with a heavy focus on the sales ledger. Exposure to Oracle Netsuite is also very ideal.

1 month notice max .

Client:

Our client is a Large football club based in South London. You will work 5 days per week from their office for the first 6 months, then 3 days in teh office thereafter.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary - £28,000 - £32,000

Working pattern - 5 days a week in the office for first 6 months - hybrid 3 days after

Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays

Study support - post probation

Pension - 5% employee, 3% employer

Bonus - Discretionary depending on company performance

3 x free season tickets

Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: gb/en/privacy-notice.

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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.