accounts receivable Bristol, England
Job description
A new opportunity has arisen for an Account Receivable Exec to join our Shared Services team.
The SSC department is responsible for safeguarding and controlling the company’s assets, ensuring processes and controls are in place to protect profit and assets. We take responsibility for accurately recording and minimising the company’s liabilities, preparation of accurate and timely financial information and ensuring that the Agency adheres to all relevant financial legislation and legal responsibilities.
Part of the Department’s remit is also to train, support and encourage other departments in their understanding and acknowledgement of financial matters and to ensure that the correct procedures are followed.
The expectation is for 2 days a week in the office
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that debts are paid in a timely manner
- Meet cash & debtor day targets set by the Head of SSC
- Proactively chase overdue invoices by telephone, email & letter within agreed timescales
- Maintain accurate records of all chasing activity
- Regular meetings with Agency Finance to ensure all relevant debts are managed as necessary
- Identify changes in payment patterns and propose action to avert indebtedness
- Ensure that all transactions are compliant with HMRC regulations
- Handle disputed bills and negotiate to bring payment within the agreed terms
- Provide accurate advice on billing queries
- Respond promptly and completely to both client and internal enquiries
- Generate sales invoices and post to ledger
- Post payments to accounts and allocate as required
- Undertake account reconciliations as required
- Ensure monthly processing deadlines are met as required
- Send out monthly client statements/letters as may be agreed from time to time
- Other duties as delegated from time to time by the Head of SSC
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with clients
- Maintain shared mailboxes for multiple legal entities
Qualities
- 1-2 years proven AR experience
- SSC experience
- Strong Excel skills
- Can think outside the box
- Fast learner and flexible
- Can work under pressure and at pace
- Credit qualified preferably
- Good Excel skills
Benefits
About us…
UNLIMITED is a fully integrated agency group with Human Understanding at the heart. Our four, award-winning divisions; marketing, communications, insight & analytics and digital, drive our creativity and define our solutions.
Our mission is to create genuine business advantage for clients, and we do this by uncovering behaviour-led insights from the Human Understanding Lab that are critical to powering performance.
HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
Human Understanding underpins our whole approach as a business.
Both in how we treat each other and how we deliver client work. It’s integral to our clients’ performance and informs how we motivate each other every day.
INVENTIVE
In order to become our client’s indispensable partner, we constantly invent creative ways to anticipate and solve problems. We are restless until we are brilliant, and our inventive nature drives our curiosity, sparks our creativity and ensures we deliver award-winning work.
PASSIONATE ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We inspire each other to reach our personal goals and our clients to reach theirs.
Our ‘Powering Performance’ guarantee means we are as passionate as our clients about continual growth.
What you’ll get…
We do all the stuff you would expect:
- 23+ days’ holiday + Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discount
- Travel season ticket loan, Cycle scheme
Sound good? If you think you tick all the boxes, please send your CV and tell us why you should join the team.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you’re just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual's needs as best as we can.
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