Sales Ledger and Cashier Manager

Overview

CMA Recruitment Group are delighted to be recruiting an exciting opportunity for a Sales Ledger and Cashier Manager to join a leading organisation within the aerospace sector. This role carries responsibility for managing invoicing, debt collection, and cashiering processes across both UK and overseas operations. With five direct reports, this is a people-focused leadership role that combines operational delivery, system expertise, and process improvement. The organisation offers agile working, modern offices, and a collaborative culture where finance is a key enabler of strategic growth.

What will the Sales Ledger and Cashier Manager role involve?

• Leading the Sales Ledger and Cashiers team (5 staff), ensuring clear objectives, performance management, training, and development.
• Owning the customer invoicing process for UK and overseas clients, ensuring amounts are billed accurately and collected within credit terms.
• Investigating overdue accounts, escalating where necessary, and working closely with commercial managers, legal advisors, and regulators.
• Managing the billing and collection service provided to overseas governments, including accurate income distribution.
• Overseeing day-to-day cashiering, bank transactions, reconciliations, and reporting, in partnership with Treasury.
• Ensuring robust internal controls to safeguard customer data, prevent fraud, and maintain compliance with statutory requirements.
• Acting as SAP Business Process Expert, managing functionality for cash management, AR and SD modules, and leading on system changes and user testing.
• Driving process improvement initiatives, streamlining workflows, and ensuring finance processes support the wider business strategy.
• Contributing to business strategy as a key stakeholder on developments affecting billing, cash management, and finance operations.
• Maintaining business continuity plans for critical processes, aligned with information management and data protection requirements.

Suitable candidate for the Sales Ledger and Cashier Manager vacancy

• Proven experience in Sales Ledger and Cashiers management, supported by accountancy qualifications or substantial relevant experience.
• Track record of managing and developing a team, with the ability to recruit, train, coach, and motivate.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls, reconciliations, and risk management.
• Excellent SAP knowledge (S4 HANA an advantage), with hands-on involvement in system improvements or implementations.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage projects and workloads to tight deadlines.
• Commercial awareness and ability to contribute to business discussions with confidence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and motivated to drive continuous improvement in systems and processes.

Additional benefits and information for the role of Sales Ledger and Cashier Manager

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with service.
• Generous employer pension contributions of up to 18%.
• Voluntary benefits and retail discounts.
• Agile hybrid working policy – minimum one day per week in the office (four days in office at month-end).
• Medical and dental cash plans.
• 8x life assurance and 75% income protection.
• Working hours: 35 per week.
• Annual pay increases

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