Accounts Assistant Department

Location: Huntingdon

Salary: From GBP 28,000.00 to GBP 34,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: 12 to 14 month Maternity cover, Full time position, Hybrid

About The Goodfellow Group

Established in London in 1946, the Goodfellow Group is a global leader in advanced materials, supporting innovation and discovery for nearly 80 years. From pioneering cancer research and advancing aerospace technology to driving progress in green energy, our materials are at the heart of some of the world's most exciting breakthroughs.

The role of the Accounts Assistant works to ensure that the account records within the business are processed with accuracy in a timely manner. A support role for the whole finance function of the group, this role is likely to have exposure to a variety of responsibilities and roles, with an initial focus on customer credit provision and hold, and aged debtor chasing. The role is likely to also support in completing a variety of transactional work, month end close procedures and generally supporting finance leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Pool of Accounts Assistants working together to ensure transactions for the group are processed efficiently and correctly
• Supporting the finance function across all companies within the group
• Contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance department by assisting peers, management, and finance leaders in identifying and implementing improved processes and procedures
• Work to meet deadlines in accordance with month-end close timetable
• Completing accurate month-end reporting and reconciliations
• Performing review and housekeeping checks to ensure the ledgers are tidy
• Complete various financial transactional requirements across the group, which may include, but are not guaranteed or limited to:

• Updating journals and ledgers as required
• Processing supplier, customer, and intercompany transactions accurately on to the system (including any matching required)
• Proactively dealing with customer, supplier and internal queries and variances: supporting effective and efficient resolution
• Chasing customer receipts; Identifying and rectifying issues or errors noted in financial records; Preparing and processing payment runs

Credit Control Focus

• Credit Management
• Actively manage customer credit limits in line with Company policy
• Manage and clear relevant credit hold queues on a regular basis ensuring a consistent flow of orders
• Working closely with the sales and customer support teams to resolve queries and issues: scheduling and running cross-department catch ups on issues
• Proactively manage accounts on stop, driving timely resolution
• Complete daily batch invoicing, or review the output of any automated processes to ensure customers are receiving invoices on a timely basis
• Debt management
• Run D365 debt reports and manipulate in excel for tracking chasing and issues
• Follow the Company procedure to support the chasing of outstanding invoices by telephone, email, letter etc.
• Coordinate and raise commission for distributors on a quarterly basis

Key Requirements

• 3 years experience, and keenness to learn and work with a team and cross departments
• Experience of financial reconciliations
• Understanding of accounting processes
• Ready and able to exercise initiative
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Numerical and problem-solving skills
• Confident in accounting systems, and quick to learn
• Good excel ability to manipulate and amend reports
• Good general Microsoft abilities: Office, Outlook, Sharepoint, etc.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Salary

Basic salary, dependent on experience. Plus: Company Healthcare, Company pension (5% company contribution), Company Sick Pay, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance cover, 22 days annual leave, rising to 25. Plus a range of employee benefits.