Assistant Accountant
About us:
GroupNexus is an established, leading player in the parking management industry. Priding ourselves on a fair approach to parking enforcement, we provide our clients with best-in-industry levels of customer service. From our brand-new state of the art head office in Hampstead, our Finance team are the central to our business and work to support the company.
About you:
This role requires a highly organised person who has several years of accounts receivable experience and can support month-end reporting by ensuring accuracy and completeness of revenue recognition and client billing. The role will primarily provide first-hand support to the Finance Manager, with month-end customer analysis, income reconciliation, as well as providing support for the whole finance team to aid the effective running of the department.
Assistant Accountant responsibilities to include:
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Raising and issuing sales invoices based on contractual terms and ensuring the correct allocation of cash receipts to individual cash centres.
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Researching and investigating discrepancies in invoices to determine the accuracy of charges
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Matching payments to invoice amounts; ensuring timely payment of debts
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Handling customer inquiries regarding billing issues
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Ensuring payments are received within the agreed credit terms
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Chasing up overdue payments via telephone and email
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Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors
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Keeping detailed records of collection activities and conversations
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Resolving outstanding payments and sending customer statements
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Managing Accounts Receivable ledger and Accounts Receivable files
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Submitting fortnightly Aged Debtor reports to management to report on accounts receivable operations
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Processing and reconciling income received from various income sources, ensuring correct nominal codes are applied.
Desirable skills and experience:
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Part qualified or finalist AAT (or qualified by experience)
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5+ years’ experience in a finance related role in a medium sized business
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Previous credit control experience
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Experience of assisting in the production of statutory, management reports and accounts
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Experience of analysing large volumes of data
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Intermediate level in Excel (Pivot table, Sorting, Filtering, Deduplication, VLOOKUP, Match, SumIf, Sumifs, Sumproduct, etc.)
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Previous experience in SAGE (50/200/Intacct) is essential. DocuSign / Concur /
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GoCardless / Stripe experience is also desirable