Ledger Team Leader

Ledger Team Leader | South Kent | Up to £40,000

Cobb & Jones Recruitment are partnering exclusively with our client who are a rapidly expanding international manufacturing business. The role will be joining the team in a smaller division and offers great opportunity to develop your career as the business achieves continued growth.Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality and timely ledger reporting with robust analysis and recommendations for improvement
• Responsible for oversight of AP, AR ledgers ensuring accurate, timely posting
• Daily monitoring of GRNI and invoice inboxes
• Responsible for expenses process including applications for new cards, paying expenses and ensuring people submit on time.
• Lead the month end closing process for AP and AR including reconciliation and report preparation.
• Responsibility for monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts.
• Help to develop digital strategy to manage new government duty to report requirements.
• Manage and support Accounts Receivable team to ensure DSO targets are hit and bad debt is minimised.
• Issue weekly reports to the business detailing balances due and overdue by customer and supplier using excel, pivots and developing a automated digital replacement.
• Manage Accounts payable to ensure invoice queries resolved in a timely manner and suppliers paid on time.
• Perform supplier and customer account reconciliations
• Work closely with procurement team to work on queries with suppliers
• Provide support to finance team on ad-hoc tasks as requested
• Support year-end processes as required
• Posting General ledger journals
• Assist with SOX testing
• Carries out such other duties that may be reasonably requested.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Management experience.
• Strong communication skills - ability to communicate cross functionally.
• Desire to be helpful and find solutions for the business.
• Experience of month end closing processes
• Excel skills - Intermediate - look up tables and pivot tables
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to multitask and work independently
• Good organisational skills - ability to plan and prioritise a busy workload.
• Keen eye for detail ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.
• Great customer service