Sales Ledger Assistant

Sewell Wallis are currently working with a leading family business who have been established since 1972. Due to expansion they are now looking for an experienced sales ledger assistant to join their team.

The right candidate will be an organised individual who has proven sales ledger processing experience.

What will you be doing?

• Raise and distribute sales invoices through Sage200, from activity captured in core weighbridge systems - ensuring integrity of weighbridge data and completeness of invoicing. Key responsibility to ensure all activity is invoiced and to identify and discuss with Senior Management any matters of uncertainty.
• Ensure customer pricing is reviewed against the master price book and in line with communications from Management Team.
• Maintain Sage 200 price book.
• Post and allocate sales ledger cash to Sage200.
• Review, reconcile and summarise cash collections against collection round sheets and movement documents. Identify and highlight to Management any discrepancies in a timely manner to ensure swift resolution.
• Credit control management - including weekly reporting to Senior Management. Key responsibility to highlight and discuss all balances of concern and ensure communication with Senior Management and Transport Planning in a timely manner to lever "on stop" collections.
• Report and reconcile other types of collection services.
• Ensure all movement documentation and other paperwork is complete and in line with regulatory compliance.
• Ensure adherence to company processes.

What skills are we looking for?

• Must have a high level of diligence - evidence attention to detail and self-review.
• Must be proactive and self-motivated.
• Must be an excellent communicator, with a professional manner with colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Must be confident to raise and resolve queries with Senior Management and external stakeholders.
• Must be trustworthy.
• Must be well organised and disciplined in terms of the daily and weekly routine.
• Must have strong experience of credit control with high volume transactions.
• Experienced and confident user of variety of IT systems, including non-accounting operational systems.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Experience of weighbridge systems and processes.
• Experience of Sage 200.

What's on offer?

• 28 days holiday.
• Competitive salary.
• Free parking.

Send us your CV below, or contact Lewis Walker for more information.

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.