Job Description

Role:

• Working collegiately with the sales team to ensure invoicing is up to date and accurate
• Analysing sales trends to provide insights to the business
• Ownership of the accounts payable and accounts receivable ledgers, ensuring all accounts are reconciled and differences are resolved expediently
• Monitoring of daily working capital availability and the processing of debt drawdowns and notifications via the company’s bankers.
• Compliance with banking regulations.
• Processing of month end procedures to create a draft set of management accounts for review by the Head of Finance with a view to being able to provide commentary alongside this over time
• Ownership of balance sheet accounts such as the VAT, duty receivable ledgers and month end accruals/prepayments
• VAT and other statutory returns
• Ownership of the KYC requirements for prospective suppliers and customers
• Corresponding with external credit data sources in respect of credit decisions
• Monitoring customer credit daily and the proactive monitoring and adherence to the company’s credit manual and procedures. Internal audits of the credit process as required during the year
• Reporting on exposures and liaising with credit insurers where necessary
• Chasing debt where escalation beyond the sales team is required

Requirements:

• Newly qualified or PQ accountant, ACA, CIMA or ACCA
• Strong interpersonal skills with particular emphasis on people management and working closely with peer group.
• Effective communication skills including listening, and a passion for teamwork will also be required
• Good commercial acumen, to be demonstrated in previous roles.
• Ambitious and desire to become part of a company with exciting plans and share in a success story.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Newly qualified or PQ accountant, ACA, CIMA or ACCA • Strong interpersonal skills with particular emphasis on people management and working closely with peer group. • Effective communication skills including listening, and a passion for teamwork will also be required • Good commercial acumen, to be demonstrated in previous roles. • Ambitious and desire to become part of a company with exciting plans and share in a success story.