Ledger Manager

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