£35000 - £42000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Billing
- Making sure the Company gets paid is critical and this role is at the forefront of delivering this objective
- Responsible for ensuring invoices are prepared in a timely and accurate
- Manner, printed and/or emailed to clients
- Responsible for the accuracy of client information in the finance systems
- Respond to and resolve billing questions escalated from Account Managers
- Directly from clients as well as all questions relating to taxes on invoicing
- Prepare journals required for financial reporting,
- To be responsible for chasing outstanding debts and to contact clients
- Slow in bill payment and work with them to make payment arrangements
- To prepare adhoc client statement requests
- To enter and match all funds received from clients to the Ledger
- Working with Account Managers obtain sufficient information to assess the
- Creditworthiness of new and existing clients and continually monitor
- Investigate and resolve client queries, process adjustments and reconcile client
- To be responsible for the overall maintenance of Accounts Receivable ledgers
- To ensure that the debt status of all clients is up to date and accurate
- Receive invoices, review for correctness and VAT treatment, obtain authorizations, code and process for
- Rreconcile Supplier statements, research and correct discrepancies and deal with supplier account queries and resolve promptly
- Monitor ledgers to ensure payments are up to date, perform payment runs
- Resolve significant issues (e.g., final demand letters) promptly
- Review and enter all staff expenses and check and ensure VAT is correctly
- Assist in month end closing and prepare monthly payables reports
- Set up and maintain the Accounts Payable ledger, maintain files
- Data entry, which includes entering Accounts payable and Receivable invoices
- Perform general office duties, such as, maintaining records management
- Bank Reconciliations. Posting of bank transactions accurately and on time.
- Supplier and Client Payment
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Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Xero knowledge
- A background in or having dealt with Telecoms organisations An understanding of other Finance functions
- Willingness to help across the Finance function as required to balance work flows
- Extensive knowledge of Accounts Payable, Billing and Accounts Receivable together with a good level of general education.
- Extensive knowledge and a general understanding of other Finance processes.
- Computer literate with excellent proficiency in MS Excel (dealing with data and data analytics, pivot tables, vlookups etc) and Financial Accounting packages (Sage or Xero).
- Possess excellent accounts background and experience, bank reconciliations
- Great interpersonal skills and effective verbal and written communications skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy with good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Be flexible, process good time management skills and be a self- starter
- Ability to work as part of a small flexible team
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
Reference no: 106519