Sales Ledger Controller - Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Ancala Water Services (Defence) Limited

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Job Description

Role: Sales Ledger Controller
Location: Hybrid, Barnsley (S75 1JN)
Salary: circa £25,000 (depending on experience)
Role Type: Permanent, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, bonus scheme, generous pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, comprehensive wellbeing programme and lots more
Ancala Water Services is a private utilities company providing clean and wastewater services to over 1,000 Ministry of Defence establishments across England and Wales. Our aim is to revolutionise the operation of the water services industry, but we need top talent to help us achieve this.
The Sales Ledger Controller will be responsible for delivering an efficient and effective invoicing, credit control, cash posting and sales ledger reporting service to the company. Youll be a key member of the friendly and supportive Finance team and bring a wealth of sales ledger experience and customer service excellence with you in every interaction. You will be a central contact for all customer queries and finance helpline calls and support the wider team on an ad-hoc basis. Youll be a proactive, organised and motivated individual with a logical approach to your work and be proud to work in a team who was recently voted Best Team at our annual company awards
Role Responsibilities:

• Raising sales invoices for our domestic customers, as well as high value commercial activity and recharges
• Ensuring the contracted list of domestic customers reconciles to our systems and that billing is undertaken in line with MoD expectations
• Processing all income from electronic banking, credit cards and cheques for prompt allocation to accounts and invoices
• Manage and maintain the BACS Direct Debit and mandate on system and manage the processing of the twice monthly Direct Debit runs
• Maintain rigorous credit control processes to include credit checks, pre-emptive debt review and overdue debt and regular reporting
• Liaise with legal partner and satisfy MOD requirements for customers taken through legal debt recovery processes

Essential Knowledge, Skill and Experience:

• Able to work independently with day-to-day guidance for all business-as-usual activities
• Strong organisational skills to ensure full range of duties are planned and completed to daily, weekly and monthly targets
• Previous experience in both sales ledger and credit control
• Experience of a Windows-based financial information system with integrated sales and purchase ledgers
• Strong IT skills including experience with a Windows-based financial information system and MS Office skills Excel skills must include data manipulation through pivot tables, data lookups, simple IF statements and data sorting
• Excellent telephone manner to deal confidently with customers

About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:

• Meet the security vetting requirements for the role which includes, but is not limited to, the successful candidate being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years and an enhanced DBS Check.

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