Finance Assistant - Bristol, United Kingdom - Shiner

Shiner
Shiner
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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We are a international lifestyle and action sports licensee, distributor and manufacturer with over 40 years of heritage and experience and are looking for a
Finance Assistant to join our team to assist in accounts receivable and accounts payable.


About the role:


Accounts Receivable:

Reporting to the Credit Manager, the role is responsible for managing the trade debtors. The role oversees all debts owed to the group companies from existing debtors and manages new requests for credit.

The role liaises closely with the Credit Manager and Group Financial Controller as well the Sales team across Europe to deliver an accurate and efficient credit control service.

The role requires building and maintaining strong relationships with customers to ensure the smooth running of accounts.

The day-to-day Accounts Receivable duties are varied and include managing debtors, ensuring timely payments are made, processing incoming funds, reconciling invoices, resolving account queries and managing debt recovery.


Accounts Payable:


The successful applicant will assist in preparing and processing supplier reconciliations & payments, and ensuring that Group Financial Controller has approved & signed all payments off.

In addition, the role will include communicating with relevant suppliers to process invoicing or payment queries. Once again, the Accounts Payable day-to-day tasks can be varied.


Furthermore, given this is an all-round Finance Assistant role, there may be a need to help out in other areas of the finance function, in support of the finance team, such as ad-hoc tasks for the team, holiday/illness cover, reconciling petty cash, looking after the car fleet (2-3 cars) documentation/tasks etc.


What key tasks will I be accountable for?

  • Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts for all 3 entities.
  • Evaluating new credit requests and reviewing customers' credit rankings (Creditsafe).
  • Setting up of terms and conditions of credit.
  • Minimising credit risk for the company by ensuring adequate credit insurance is in place for customers.
  • Ensuring timely payment of debts by chasing customers for outstanding balances.
  • Following up payments as needed.
  • Negotiating repayment plans, putting accounts on stop, initiating legal letters etc.
  • Responding to customer enquiries.
  • Reconciliation of customer accounts.
  • Checking and posting of receipts to Microsoft Navision / Business Central.
  • Creating Aged Debt Reports and distributing to Country Managers for feedback and actions.
  • Being first point of contact for all relevant enquiries.
  • Monitoring of current, trade (trust account) to aid cashflow management.
  • Releasing sales orders.
  • Raising credit memo's in accordance with internal policy.
  • Reconcile SagePay, Braintree/paypal and any additional payment gateway accounts to our accounting system.
  • Liaise with HSBC on Shiner BV debtors and answer any HSBC notification requested.
  • Communicating with relevant suppliers to process invoicing or payment queries.
  • Attaching the correct documentation to invoices and reconciling purchase orders to invoices received.
  • Posting invoices and credit notes and ensuring they're coded correctly in the system.
  • Preparing monthly supplier statement reconciliations.
  • Preparing and processing supplier payments and ensuring that Group Financial Controller has signed all payments off.
  • Ensuring that all accounts payable activities comply with relevant financial policies and procedures.
  • Investigating and resolving outstanding creditor items.

Job Requirements

Person Profile:


  • A high level of attention to detail and the capacity to work to deadlines.
  • Able to work on several tasks at the same time, establish the right priorities and remain calm under pressure.
  • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Be able to support and work in a small, closeknit finance team.
  • Have good judgment, excellent commercial awareness and a focus on customer service.
  • Proactive, confident, helpful and friendly demeanor.

Education and Experience:


  • Demonstrable experience in a similar role.
  • Desirable experience of using Microsoft Navision / Dynamics, MS Business Central or similar ERP systems.
  • Good Microsoft Excel skills to intermediate level.
  • Relevant and hands on finance experience within a small, medium sized or comparable organisation.

More About Us


Our vision is to connect with, excite and inspire whilst promoting an active lifestyle through our portfolio of global brands.

We are dedicated to nurturing and growing brands strategically and sustainably. Our carefully considered brand stewardship and close vendor relationships serve to ensure long term brand equity.

We are a friendly, down to earth and hardworking team, with our Head Office located in Aztec West. We offer a competitive salary in addition to lifestyle benefits, including use of our own skate park, gym membership, clothing allowance, LinkedIn le
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