Accounts Receivable Finance Assistant - Poynton, United Kingdom - Circularity First

Description

Accounts Receivable Finance Assistant**Circularity First provides Sustainable IT Advisory, Solutions and Services, partnering with organisations to make IT sustainable for people, planet, and profit. Every day we are reducing the impact of IT on climate change, scarce resources and eWaste, contributing to a more sustainable world.

The eleven businesses in our group serve end user, distributor, and e-commerce customers.

We have worked with organisations such as The London Stock Exchange, The Ministry of Defence, Global Banks, Global ISP's, enterprises, and the public sector, to make their IT more sustainable.

This aligns to our vision to be catalysts for the adoption of sustainable IT on a global stage.

Headquartered in Poynton, (nr Manchester) UK, we also have offices in Aalborg, Denmark and Roseville, California. We have ambitious growth plans, and are looking for a driven, enthusiastic individual to join our team.


The role
We are looking to hire an experienced AR Finance Assistant to expertly manage the debts of our company.

As AR Finance Assistant, you will be responsible for building relationships with our customers and their finance teams.

You will deliver effective credit control, ensuring customer payments are received in a timely manner, with pro-active query management, reporting on queries & returns to the business to contribute to process improvement and provide operational insight.

You will provide risk management, evaluating new credit requests and managing our credit insurance.

You will be processing invoices and credits, maintaining the sales ledger, and providing administrative support.

To ensure success as a credit controller, you should have a good eye for detail and the ability to reconcile complex company accounts, including intercompany transactions.

What you will
do:

• Evaluating new credit requests and conducting client credit checks, including the management of our credit insurance.
• Managing and collecting debts from company debtors.
• Setting up the terms of credit for new clients.
• Negotiating payment plans.
• Managing the collection of all payments and debts.
• Responding to client queries.
• Processing invoices & credits.
• Preparing statements and reports for customers, including use of the Dunning system.
• Managing the sales ledger.
• Liaising with customers and the sales team.
• Any other administrative support required by the Finance Team.

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What we
preferably need from you**:

• Previous experience in an accounts receivable / credit control role.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Experience working with a variety of internal reporting systems, preferably NetSuite.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Effective communicator.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workloads.
• Danish speaking

We believe in growing our talent from within, so if you would love to learn more about this role, think you can do it and are able to demonstrate the skills you have in relation to what we need, then we would encourage you to apply.

We are the right company for you if you need**:

• To be part of a culture that genuinely values the impact finance makes.
• To align your work with a deeper purpose. We are committed to making IT more sustainable with solutions that are better for people, our planet and for profit.
• To have significant input and involvement, owning and learning from the results of your work and from the wider team
• To work in an experienced team that has a passion for developing talent.
• A flexible work life balance that encourages you to make time for your own wellbeing.

This is a truly rewarding role with the opportunity to drive our business forward.

The role needs to be flexible to cope with different international demands however our culture recognises the need for work life balance and has flexibility to enable this.

The role can be remote or hybrid (hybrid roles have expectations to visit our UK office once or twice a week - or more if you prefer).

Working with us will be both challenging and rewarding, we focus on a shared purpose to care for each other, deliver for our customers and to build a sustainable and valuable business.

You can genuinely be yourself and enjoy a welcoming inclusive environment, living our values with the right attitude is just as important as the experience you bring.

We ask all employees to build trust through their everyday actions - to be Transparent, Resilient, Unified, Sincere and Transformational.