£32000 - £35000 Per year
Assistant Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Credit check new customer accounts
- Ensuring correct and accurate Finance and VAT information on customer accounts;
- Ensure all shipped orders are billed daily;
- Creating and sending invoices to retailers;
- Working with the relevant departments (internally and externally) to resolve any sales order customer queries; (price/quantity variances)
- Raise credit notes where necessary.
- Control the sales order to cash process to ensure Customers pay on time
- Contacting customers in advance of payments to confirm amounts & settlement dates
- Producing monthly customer statements;
- Monitoring the aged debt analysis;
- This involves contacting customers by phone or email as required;
- Prepare weekly credit reports for review, with overdue balances
- Post cash collection, allocating receipts to the customer sales ledger account daily
- Reconciling customer accounts;
- Moving smaller retailers or persistent late payers on to direct debit
- Producing weekly reports to be shared with stakeholders including Wholesale);
- Reconcile bank accounts
- Prepare UK VAT returns
- Monitor US sales tax returns
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Can work well as part of a team and independently
- Efficient time / workload management
- Ambition to progress internally
- Ability to pick things up quickly and hit deadlines
- Strong communication skills
Reference no: 109362