Senior Accounts Receivable Assistant

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Senior AR/AP Assistant
up to £40k
Hybrid working
North London

I am currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Accounts Receivable Assistant to join a client of mine in the Private Equity space, in London. This role will focus on providing both AP and AR support to the wider finance team and work the Commercial Finance Team and Treasury Manager. Please email a copy of your CV to shendl.van-wyk@investigo.co.uk

Responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining the Company's billing diary and ownership of the sales invoicing process
• Own the retail lease billing process, including monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc retail income
• Aged debt management, including;
• Undertaking and maintaining accurate records of all chasing activity and where required initiate proceedings to ensure outstanding debts are brought to a satisfactory conclusion
• Weekly cash allocation
• Retail lease management, inputting new leases, terminations, expiries and renewals as required
• Billing of all forms of ‛other income'
• Process, reviewing and matching invoices to purchase orders
• Ensuring that purchase orders and invoices are coded and approved for payment by budget holders in compliance with company policies
• Completing reconciliations of payments and supplier statements
• Assisting with timely period end closing
• Maintaining journal approval file
• Dealing with queries from suppliers and staff
• Documenting all transactional workflows
• Reviewing and allocating company credit card expenditure
• Providing accurate monthly reports to the senior management team on aged debtors and creditors
• Monthly bank reconciliations
• BACS run
• Setting up adhoc payments in line with the Company's approval process
• Preparation of the VAT reconciliation and Returns process
• Preparation of the Payment Practices Report
• Maintaining relationships with HMRC and other banking relationships as appropriate
• Maintenance of the Finance system and resolution of queries through escalation to IT support
• Support and undertake user acceptance testing for any required system upgrades

Candidate Specification:

• An ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work constructively as part of a team
• Ability to identify process and efficiency improvements and bring these to your managers attention
• Good, confident communication skills
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload
• Desirable, experience of Horizon software (not essential)