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Accounts Assistant

Telford

Temporary – 6 months

Mon – Fri – 37 hours per week (9:30 am – 3:00pm would be considered)

Salary – £27,000 - £29,000

We are working with a well-established, stable company based in Telford. They are looking for an Accounts Assistant on a temporary basis for around 6 months. You will be working as part of the credit control team where you will be personally responsible for over 350 live accounts. Although the main part of this role is credit control, you will also help with purchase ledger payments, cashbooks, and any ad-hoc duties as they are a small team.

You will be responsible for:

* Maximise on time cash collection and minimise overdue money via phone, emails, letters

* Assessing the credit risks of new and existing customers

* Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure credit control issues are resolved

• Produce credit reports and assess the credit risk to the company

• Monthly cash collection forecasting and monthly debt reporting

• Maintaining an accurate credit diary

• Raising deposit applications

• Processing debit and credit card payments

• Dealing with queries

• Uploading invoices to online portals

• Ensuring appropriate VAT and other taxation is charged on external invoices

• Liaising with sales and fulfilment teams to ensure any issues with payment are actioned

• Facilitate training of junior members of the team or sales and fulfilment colleagues in matters relating to credit control and sales invoicing

• Providing cover for other team members

• Dealing with audit queries relating to banking audit and statutory accounts audits

• Keep records in line with HMRC and Companies House requirements

• Ad-hoc tasks requested by the Finance Manager and Financial Controller.

Skills and Experience

Any applicants will need to have previous experience of working in a credit control or in a varied accounts position where credit control was part of the duties. The successful candidate will ideally have experience of integrated credit control systems and be an intermediate user of MS Office programs including Word and Excel. You will need to have excellent communication and negotiation skills.

The application process:

Our mission is to support our clients in their creation of an equal, diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable accessibility adjustments within the application process, then please make it known at the earliest opportunity.

We will carefully consider your details and advise you if we're able to progress with your application within 72 working hours. If you do not hear from us within this time your details won’t be retained. So, if you're not successful on this occasion, do continue to respond to future roles we advertise. In the meantime, all good wishes and continued success with your search for employment.

About Us

Prince Personnel are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Whether you’re seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract you’ll find us easy to deal with. Located in thriving Telford, we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire and North Wales. Prince Personnel specialise in commercial, accounts and finance and technical recruitment. With the best jobs around we are an independent agency working hard for you

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