Finance Assistant

Your New Company

Hays are working with a successful organisation based in Dudley who are looking to welcome a Finance Assistant to their team on a permanent basis.

Your new role

To support the finance department with various administrative and financial tasks, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial operations and control.

To include Accounts payable operations, Accounts Receivable operations, cash book maintenance and housekeeping of ledgers.

• Receiving, verifying and posting supplier invoices to the finance system on the date of receipt.
• Reconciliation of monthly supplier statements and liaise with the supplier or relevant party to resolve any discrepancies as a priority.
• Processing payments to suppliers ensuring they are completed in a timely and accurate manner, including remittances being sent on or before the date of payment released
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure all customer and supplier payment terms are adhered to, referencing to SLA.
• Liaise with service department with regard to service debits, to enable deduction from supplier factory payments.
• Liaise with service department with regard to customer debits, maintain live debit tracker raising credits agreed in a timely manner.
• Maintaining accurate supplier & customer files and keep ledgers to the highest standards.
• Ensure all invoices are raised on a daily basis for manufacturing until migration to a new ERP system.
• Raise credit notes where required
• Proactively chase customers accounts, update cash flow to reflect due accounts & chase any discrepancies in receipts.
• Post incoming cash receipts to customers accounts and actively maintain ledgers with regard to queries.
• Update cash flows to reflect upcoming supplier payments to terms with a forward looking approach.
• Mailbox managed, ensuring all emails are addressed.
• Provide support for audit and compliance requirements.
  
  

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills permit the individual to effectively communicate within the group and external suppliers, and retailers.
• A highly disciplined person, self-motivated, and delivery focused.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience within accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash book.
• Working towards AAT or similar qualification
• First-class communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, must be competent in Excel
  
  

What You Need To Do Now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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