Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable Administator

Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable Administrator | De’Longhi Group (De’Longhi, Kenwood and Braun) | Kenwood Global Headquarters, Havant, Hampshire | £Competitive + excellent benefits package

Closing Date – 15th December 2024

Elevate your finance career with De’Longhi Group. De’Longhi Group is now seeking an Accounts Receivable (AR)/Accounts Payable (AP) administrator in a newly-designed role supporting two finance departments.

This position is open to established professionals and those nearer the start of a career in finance. It could offer an excellent introduction to the function – especially for someone working towards an AAT qualification – as it provides broad learning opportunities in a supportive, inclusive team.

For entry-level candidates we will consider offering a relevant apprenticeship, and either way, continuous professional development is a hallmark of our culture.

The role

If successful in your application, you’ll be responsible for processing AR and AP transactions efficiently and accurately. Your time will be divided between these two areas based on each team’s workload, which typically aligns with the recurring patterns of the financial cycle.

Within AR, your tasks will include daily banking, logging debit and raising credit notes, obtaining approvals.

For the AP team, you’ll spend a lot of your time working with our Concur expenses system, also inputting invoices and reconciling supplier statements where time allows.

Success in this role means all expenses, payments and invoicing are processed accurately and on time. You’ll act as a supportive partner to colleagues across the Group, with exposure to all our departments and teams, getting what you need from staff at all levels in order to address and fix any financial issues that are within your remit.

Key responsibilities

Your responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Maintaining debit note spreadsheets, logging and updating information to best represent the current status of each claim.

• Maintaining the authorisation/resolution process for sales managers and collating/co-ordinating responses to resolve debit notes in a timely manner.

• Preparing data for the Outstanding Debit Note Report.

• Raising credit notes promptly when authorised.

• Communicating clearly with all parties involved in the debit note process.

• Ensuring receipts are allocated to relevant accounts via the daily banking posting, and circulating the cash spreadsheet.

• Logging, emailing and filing Irish customer return claims.

• Reviewing and releasing employee expenses within Concur.

• Assisting with processing UK invoices onto SAP.

• Checking fortnightly BACS pay runs to suppliers.

• Ad-hoc duties as required to support the Finance Team.

• Identifying, sharing and helping to implement improvements in Finance processes.

About you

We’re looking for relevant experience in comparable AR or AP roles or, for more junior candidates, demonstrable training or aptitude in this area, with a keen interest in finance and a desire to progress your career.

All candidates must have a commitment to solving problems and a highly collaborative approach to work. These qualities will be brought to bear as you support people across the Group, so they are very important; the role won’t suit someone who prefers to work in isolation.

These tasks will require familiarity with Concur, Excel (including formulas) and a variety of digital portals and tools including SAP and Signeasy, which the right candidate could learn on the job. A good understanding of VAT, and the regulations around expenses, will be useful, though these could also be learned or honed in-post.

You’ll need to think on your feet, assess and prioritise your workload and respond to prompts and issues as they arise. Though well-supported, you should learn quickly to work independently, so we’re looking for someone who has plenty of ability and an eagerness to grow and add value. Your communication skills will be as sharp as your attention to detail: always essential in finance roles. As well as an intuitive grasp of finance, you’ll have some commercial aptitude.

What’s in it for you?

This role offers a broad range of experience in a friendly, inclusive environment and a welcoming company culture. Our investment into staff is outstanding, with a strong focus on learning, and our extensive benefits include:

• Competitive incentivised salary

• Excellent contributory pension

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Superb subsidised restaurant

• Free on-site parking

• Flexible benefits package

• Access to a range of wellbeing activities and events

About us

De’Longhi Group is home to the De'Longhi, Kenwood and Braun Household brands—all pioneering kitchen and home appliance brands that are internationally recognised and respected. The De'Longhi Group, headquartered in Treviso, Italy, has international operations in more than 30 countries.

The location

Your reporting office will be Kenwood’s global HQ on the beautiful South Coast between Portsmouth and Chichester, where our products are conceived and tested, and where our UK De’Longhi division is based. We operate a flexible, hybrid working model: once you’re comfortable in your role, you’ll typically work three days at our office and two at home. You should live within commuting distance.