At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage collections and resolve customer billing issues in a dynamic finance team.
- Company: Join a flexible finance team in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, full-time hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Exciting opportunity for career development in a fast-paced setting.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by improving customer relations and financial accuracy.
- Qualifications: 5 GCSEs including Maths & English; strong communication and organisational skills.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 £ per year.
Finance Assistant (Collections) Role - Campsie area, Derry/Londonderry
Temporary Contract Onsite Role Fulltime Temporary Role Salary £26k
This position is within the company's flexible Finance team, comprising of Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledger Accounting and Trade Compliance. The Collections Associate is responsible for collections of outstanding accounts receivable from the existing client base and all other aspects of collections, resolving customer billing problems and reducing accounts receivable delinquency while maintaining a professional relationship with customers. This position will report to the AR Team Lead.
Key Duties:
- Making outbound calls in a professional manner while keeping and improving customer relations
- Identify, investigate and resolve payment variances. This will include short payments, late payments, past terms discounts, duplicate billings, etc.
- Reviewing open accounts for collections efforts
- Applying payments and facilitating resolution of customer disputes
- Proactively identifying process improvement opportunities that will reduce future occurrences of aged accounts receivable balances and work with appropriate internal contacts to implement those improvements
- Maintain financial and data accuracy through adhering to all financial policies and procedures
- Commits to adhering to Service Level Agreements both within the company and with outside customers
- Performs other duties as assigned, including participating in special projects as identified
- Supporting credit management across numerous sites, managing blocks on delinquent accounts and assessing new customers for credit
Education: A minimum of 5 GCSE's or equivalent including Maths & English
Training/Attributes:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, Access, and other software as needed to perform duties of the position
- Strong organisational skills in handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously with high attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Ability to work independently or collaboratively, and to adapt to a fast-changing environment
- Strong communication, proactive problem solving, and analytical skills required
- Teamwork
- Good organisational skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Accurate data handling
To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Clare Simpson at MCS Group. Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current jobs.
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