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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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