At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage cash allocation and maintain accurate customer accounts in a dynamic team.
- Company: Established company in Birmingham city centre with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, 25 days' holiday, healthcare scheme, and learning opportunities.
- Other info: Ideal for detail-oriented individuals seeking growth in a high-volume environment.
- Why this job: Take ownership of cash allocation and make a real impact on financial accuracy.
- Qualifications: Experience in accounts receivable and strong Excel skills required.
The predicted salary is between 27900 - 34100 £ per year.
Accounts Receivable Specialist required for a new permanent opportunity working for a well established company based in Birmingham city centre.
This role focused will be focussed on cash allocation, sales ledger reconciliations and maintaining accurate customer accounts.
Working closely with Credit Control and the wider operations team, you'll help ensure receipts are posted correctly, queries are resolved and the sales ledger remains accurate and up to date.
- What You'll Be Doing
- Posting and allocating customer receipts from remittances
- Working across GBP, euro and US dollar transactions
- Processing exchange-rate differences, bank charges and agreed write-offs
- Reconciling customer statements and sales ledger control accounts
- Supporting weekly and monthly bank reconciliations
- Investigating unallocated cash and resolving payment discrepancies
- Working with Credit Control and operations to resolve invoice queries
- Coordinating and posting contra-account entries
- Processing credit notes and other ledger adjustments
- Setting up new customer accounts and applying agreed credit limits
- Assisting with wider month-end sales and income reconciliations
- What You'll Bring
- Previous experience within accounts receivable, sales ledger or cash allocation
- A strong understanding of customer receipts, remittances and reconciliations
- Experience of working with control accounts and bank reconciliations
- Confidence handling multi-currency transactions and payment differences
- Strong Excel skills, ideally including VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables
- Good numerical accuracy and attention to detail
- The ability to investigate queries and follow them through to resolution
- A proactive, honest and collaborative approach
- Experience within logistics, transport, freight or another high-volume environment would be useful
This is not a traditional Credit Control role, so candidates will need practical experience of cash allocation and maintaining an accurate sales ledger rather than purely chasing overdue debt.
- What You'll Get in Return
- Hybrid working, Some flexibility around working hours
- 25 days' holiday
- Company healthcare scheme
- Company sick pay
- Learning and development opportunities
This would suit someone who enjoys the detail behind Accounts Receivable and wants a role where they can take ownership of cash allocation, reconciliations and the accuracy of the wider sales ledger.
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