Financial Accounts Executive (Ap / Ar / Vat /Erp)

GBR Recruitment Ltd are working exclusively with a leading “people centric” Lincolnshire based manufacturer, recruiting for an experienced Financial Accounts Executive with strong day to day financial accounting skills & strong ERP systems skills (intermediate) to join their highly successful & busy team.

If you have used SAP, Epicor, Syspro, Sage or other ERP systems then you could be ideal for this role. Plus the client will train you in Microsoft Power BI, so you can create, amend & update MI dashboards. 

The Finance role is responsible for producing / reconciling both supplier & customer invoices & payments, plus credit control duties inc. chasing debtors & managing overdue accounts.

As a key Financial Accounts team member, you will also be providing month end accounts & year end accounts support, plus when trained by the company produce financial / commercial data analysis using Microsoft Power BI Dashboards (transferring existing data into Power BI, via importing & creating dashboards, plus improving / modifying existing dashboards).

Once trained by the client, thePower BIDashboards you will produce in this role, will inc. sales, financial performance & customer management information, using a selection of charts / visual management tools for all to see & access within the senior operational management team.

Along with the financial aspects of this role, you will also assist with customer service duties, such as answering customers telephone queries & dealing with customers specific product orders (chasing processed orders for updates on completion etc.).

Naturally you will have professional communication skills, over the telephone, email & face to face.

You will also be particularly strong in Excel spreadsheets (ideally intermediate level inc. analysing data, setting up spreadsheets, plus export & import data correctly).

As well as a strong financial numerical mindset, you will also possess strong manufacturing process knowledge (any manufacturing sector) & ideally have proven management accounting qualifications such as AAT, ACCA, CIMA, or be time served (not essential but ideal).

This Commercially based role provides a great opportunity for a Finance / Accounting professional, to make a real impact within this growing organisation & to start a new career within a highly reputable accredited business.

Key Duties:

• Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
• Credit Control & Debtor Days Control / Debt Management
• Account Recons, Year End & VAT Returns
• Sales & Key Account MI / KPI Reporting
• Data Analysis & Dashboards creation & modification 
• ERP System updates & Excel spreadsheets creation / maintenance
• Commercial & Administration support
• Customer Service support (Customer orders)

Employee Benefits Package:

• Additional company performance discretionary annual bonus (c.£250 - £500 per annum)
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare & Medical Insurance (can add family too)
• 29 days holiday (plus an extra day accrued over the first 5 years of service)

Hours of work: 8.30am – 5pm, Monday to Friday, with 5 days onsite.

This is a great opportunity for a Finance professional who is both an operationally minded & people focussed person who want to make a real mark within a business. The ideal individual will be someone who can easily work on their own initiative, but also share ideas & processes with the team, helping to contribute business improvements.

So, if you are flexible & with a broad financial, sales & manufacturing operations skill set, then this client offers you a great future, plus real career development / personal growth opportunities.