Sales Ledger Clerk

A brand new opportunity has become available in the Solihull area for a Sales Ledger Clerk within a manufacturing business. This position will be supporting the Finance Manager and the Finance Director of this growing business!This role will involve a range of sales ledger tasks, including but not limited to; raising sales invoices, sending out invoice statements, chasing payments, bank reconciliations, cash allocation, cashbook reconciliations and a range of other tasks.This role is a temporary to permanent position, come about due to the previous person in this role due to retire at the end of this year. The business are wanting to have the first 3 months of this role a temporary position to act as a probation period.

Key responsibilities:

• Raise sales invoices for the business.
• Liaising with the internal team to ensure sales invoices are accurate and contain all supporting documentation.
• Reconciling of the bank statement on a daily basis.
• Allocating of incoming payments to the bank.
• Investigating unknown payments into the bank.
• Reconciling incoming payments against remittances to ensure things are allocated correctly.
• Assisting with debt chasing, so taking control of the occasional credit control tasks.
• Resolving queries related to invoices to ensure prompt payment.
• Generating of aged debtor reports for management, ideally keeping these to 30-60 days as a max.
• Other ad-hoc finance tasks.

Candidate Attributes and Skills:

• Ideally have previously worked within a sales ledger role, having experience with:
  • Raising invoices.
  • Bank reconciliations.
  • Cash allocation.
  • Query resolution.
• Be a big team player, this team are all about knuckling in together to get a job done and they will want someone who is keen to be a part of that team.
• Need to be immediately available or on a short notice period as this role is looking to begin as soon as possible, to help everyone start stepping up into their new role to train.

Benefits:

• Work as part of an enthusiastic team who are all excited about the upcoming year and all the skill sets that they will be able to work on and improve on.
• Join a business that offer a range of benefits over the coming year including hybrid working and flexible working hours.
• Study support available once passed probation.
• 33 days of annual leave.
• Monthly team lunches.
• On-site parking.

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