Accounts Receivable Clerk

Job Description

Kenny Recruit are currently working with a creator of beauty brands who has over 25 years worth of experience to find a temporary Accounts Receivable Clerk. The finance department is a busy, fast paced environment so attention to detail is essential as wellas the ability to work well under pressure and with high volumes. Our client has a renowned reputation of creating, developing and marketing award winning beauty brands. They are one of the fastest-growing British beauty businesses and work with well knownBritish retailers as well as having partnerships across the globe.The purpose of the role is to accurately maintain and process all sales ledger records, carry out regular credit control activities to ensure debts are paid in line with agreed terms and support other areas of the team where necessary to ensure departmentaldeadlines and objectives are met. To be successful in this role, experience and knowledge of the system NetSuite is a must.Pay- £16 - £21 per hour (dependent on experience)Location- Central London (hybrid model)Working hours- 9.00am - 5.30pmResponsibilities:Sales Ledger Maintenance (UK & ROW)

• Act as main point of contact for all customer accounts, maintaining relationships built by the commercial team.
• Creating new customer accounts, reviewing credit reports to recommend credit limits and payments terms.
• Maintain customer ledgers, ensuring contact information is accurate.
• Posting all sales invoices and credit notes and submitting to customers via post/email/EDI/portals.
• Ensuring all invoices are raised within 24 hours of despatch.
• Managing Contra accounts, reviewing two way trade invoices and releasing accruals where relevant.
• Review and investigation of any unallocated cash, arranging refunds where necessary.
• Manage account status to ensure terms are updated to reflect payment history, communicating with Commercial team as required.
• Raising US return authorisations and credit note approvals.

Credit Control (UK & ROW)

• Provide customers with regular statements, copy invoices and any additional documentation required to secure payment.
• Ensure any invoice queries or debit notes are promptly and accurately recorded, liaising with internal and external parties to ensure payment is not delayed.
• Pro-actively chasing debtors effectively by telephone and email.
• Posting and allocation of all transactions through IFF accounts.
• Ensuring all remittances are received and any debit notes are logged, investigated and resolved.
• Processing of all credit card receipts.
• Ensuring Retailer online portals are reconciled monthly and kept up to date with all invoices as raised
• Referring any at risk debt to first stage legal action.
• Reporting overdue debt position to management (UK& ROW).

Month End

• Agreeing inter company balances.
• Monthly bank reconciliation.
• Supporting the Head of Finance with the administration of the invoice discounting facility.
• Monthly sales reporting.

Requirements:

• At least 2 -3 years worth of working in a similar role
• Experience of using the system NetSuite
• Strong Excel skills
• Ability to reduce aged debt
• Be immediately available or a maximum 2 week notice

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