Accounts Receivable Specialist
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An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Finance function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.
The Role
The successful candidate will manage the end-to-end accounts receivable process and support critical purchase orders, invoicing and collections activity for the EMEA business. This role is also critical in maintaining accurate financial records and supporting cash flow management and reconciliation of accounts.
The role itself will involve a range of activities including:
- Work with project teams to drive supplier portal onboarding.
- Work with client teams to ensure timely receipt of project POs.
- Generate and send invoices to customers promptly and accurately, following up on overdue invoices to ensure timely payment.
- Proactively monitor customer accounts for overdue balances, sending reminders (credit control) & actively manage cash flow into the business.
- Reconcile accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all receipts are accounted for and properly posted.
- Business Partnering: working closely with client facing teams & other finance team members to resolve any discrepancies in receipts or customer accounts.
- Work with the Finance Manager to ensure that cash flow forecasts accurately reflect client receipting expectations.
- Maintain accurate records and update customer account details as required.
The Candidate
Due to the critical need for this role, we can only consider candidates who are immediately available for work and comfortable to be working on a fixed term basis
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Experience working with Xero
- Experience working supplier portals (Ariba, Tungsten, Coupa, Taulia, Tradeshift, Oracle, Baseware etc)
- Proven experience using Microsoft Excel & Word
- Minimum of 3 years experience in an Accounts Receivable (or similar) role
- Strong attention to detail
- Highly organised and methodical mindset
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to work closely with stakeholders external to Finance