Accounts Receivable Assistant

I am recruiting for a Accounts Receivable Assistant position within a dynamic team, in a Global Commercial Real Estate company. If you have excellent communication and organisational skills, have experience working with high volume transactions and have a passion for finance, I want to hear from you!

• Salary - Up to £32,000 dependent on experience
• Hybrid working - 3 days at home, 2 in the office
• Location - Central London
• Duration - 6 month FTC (Maternity cover)

Duties include:

• Maintain the cash management inbox and ensure all queries are cleared within strict timelines.
• Banking and allocating of cheques on a weekly basis.
• Sorting and distribution of post.
• Investigation of legacy unallocated cash. Liaising with clients, credit control and fee earners (within and outside of the country) for remittance advices; liaising with EMEA Controllership team during month end procedures.
• Moving cash between invoices and matching credit notes against invoices; arranging refunds of duplicate payments, overpayments and wrongly received cash.
• Allocation of monies received (including BACS/Chaps, cheques and cash) in multiple bank accounts, including EUR and USD, against invoices and cost codes.
• Process foreign, priority, HR salary payments and other urgent payments in a timely manner.

Skills and qualities:

• 1-2 years experience within an Accountancy and Finance role.
• Experience of working in high volume transactions with a result driven mind-set.
• Good interpersonal & Communication skills with the ability to quickly form professional relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels of seniority.
• Analytical & problem-solving approach.
• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate tasks efficiently, being both autonomous & a team player.
• Good IT Skills including Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP's, pivot tables, formulas).

If you have the required skills and experience, please send a copy of your up to date CV or apply here.