Job type
TemporaryLocation
LondonWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Credit ControlIndustry
Retail & Consumer GoodsPay
£19-£21 p/h DOE
Accounts Receivable Specialist
Your new company
Founded over 25 years ago, this global makeup and skincare brand has gained a loyal following thanks to its incredible products. The team are looking to bring in an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist, who is a team player and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Your new role
- Raising customer invoices daily to 50-100 invoices daily on average
- Issuing Credit Memo and RETA on the system and communicating it customers and relevant departments internally
- Processing customer returns/refunds/marketing rebates/discounts
- Issuing Credit Memo and RETA on the system and communicating it customers and relevant departments internally
- Cash Book postings and customer allocations on the ledgers
- Keeping the customer accounts up to date and accurate at all times
- Keeping Age Debtors clean and up to date
- Preparing Age debtors report with detail comments for Finance Manager’s, CFO and CEO’s review weekly
- P&L and Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Bringing Credit Memo and RETA’S list up to date for higher stakeholders reviews weekly
- Liaising with HoD’s and various department internally to resolve issues and queries
- Building good rapport with Customers for ease of communication and problem solving
- Help the team and Financial controller with any ad hoc tasks
What you'll need to succeed
- Required: AAT (studying or completed) / degree holder or working towards a finance qualification (ACCA/CIMA)
- Required: 5+ years of strong working experience as an AR within a commercial/retail industry preferably not required
- Strong knowledge and experience of AR processes and procedures
- Excellent attention to details whilst raising customer invoices
- Robust knowledge and experience dealing with high volume of customer returns
- Great exposure working with customer deductions such as (discounts, rebates, etc)
- Strong customer reconciliations skills
- Good understanding of Accruals and prepayments principles
- Good Written and spoken communication skills
- Good Inventory knowledge and reconciliations skills
- Strong Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, Sumifs, Index Matches) required
- Great analytical skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Exposed to Month End and Year End, working with tight deadlines and under pressure
- Work as a team and independently
- Collaborative, hardworking, diligent, pay attention to details, proactive and good time management
- Experience working with NetSuite will be an advantage
- Someone who can come in and hit the ground running
What you need to do now
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