Accounts Receivable Supervisor

Accounts Receivable Supervisor

Location: Berkshire

Salary: £40-45,000 + great benefits inc. car allowance

To support our Client’s growth, we are recruiting for an outstanding Accounts Receivable Supervisor to support their current business and imminent growth strategy. Playing a key role in the finance team you will have proven experience, along with an ability to get the best out of your colleagues whilst ensuring you flourish in this fast-moving organisation.

The Role:

• To have a deep understanding of Accounts Receivable, along with sound knowledge of additional finance functions including credit control, cash application and sales invoicing.
• To assist line management on the development and hiring of the team.
• To collaborate with management to establish and implement department goals, objectives, and procedures.
• To be responsible for improving overall working capital via cross- functional collaboration, problem solving, mentorship, and innovation within the organization.
• To strive to find process improvement across the team and implementing counter measures through problem solving.
• To ensure all workloads are balanced with deadlines being met.
• To resolve billing disputes in a fair and effective manner.
• To evaluate the creditworthiness of potential customer, setting credit limit and minimizing bad debt risk via assessing industry trends, economic conditions, credit history and financial stability.
• To prepare written reports summarizing credit analysis finding and presenting recommendation to line management and relevant stakeholders.
• To collaborate with Sales, Finance, and other departments to optimize cashflow whilst maintaining positive customer relationships.
• To prepare reports and documentation related to departmental activities, productivity and performance.
• To support special and ad-hoc projects supporting the management team
• To undertake balance sheet and bank reconciliations, along with end of month closure activities.

The Person:

• Part-Qualified, AAT or strong educational base to complement relevant experience
• Proven experience of supervising a small team, within a dynamic organisation
• Experience with credit analyses and & AP processing
• Able to compile in-depth and relevant reports
• Effective communication skills written and verbal, with the ability to provide support and guidance
• Strong technical accounting skills
• Ability to analyse and explain financials to non-financial staff
• Proven IT skills (MS Office / Xero / ERP)
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, maintaining productivity and quality of work
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement through problem solving.

To apply for this exciting opportunity please email your CV, or call for more details