Accounts Adminstrator

**Role Outline**:

- Maintenance of the sales ledger, ensuring efficient handling of customer payments, accuracy, and mínimal levels of bad debt through credit control.- Maintenance of the purchase ledger, ensuring supplier invoices are processed accurately and on time.-
- Support customer facing team on accounts matters, such as checking payments, investigating differences, and advising on queries.- Use Sage200 to maintain sales and purchase ledgers, including performing corrections, checks, and reconciliations.
- Proactively identify and recommend improvements to current processes, with a focus on accuracy and efficiency; support their implementation.

**Key responsibilities**:
- Sales Ledger:
- Record and process daily payments and allocate in Sage200.-
- Follow credit control processes to resolve bad debt efficiently, employing considered judgement where required.-
- Identify, monitor and resolve errors.-
- Collaborate with customer success teams to advise or resolve financial matters for customer accounts, payments and our processes.-
- Purchase Ledger:- Record and save supplier invoices, preparing them for authorisation and payment.-
- Flag any questions or concerns about a supplier or payment; engage internally and externally to resolve issues.-
- Maintain supplier details.-
- Accounts Customer Service:- Deal with customer queries and payments over the phone. Process Improvement:- Identify any new or recurring issues, and report to the Finance Operations Manager.-
- Seek to thoroughly understand task aims, rather than simply following processes.-
- Collaborate with others to find solutions to any issues or challenges.-
- Question current practices, sharing any ideas for process improvements.-
- Support any planned improvement action, assisting in liaising with other teams where appropriate.-
- Professional Development:- Seek opportunities to develop your accounts knowledge and other skills; be proactive and willing with new challenges.- Reflect on your abilities and take mistakes as an opportunity to learn.
- Support and coach other team members when required and able; be willing to seek advice and clarity when required.

**Required Skills & Experience**:

- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Experience of working in an accounts related role
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and reprioritise
- Outlook towards constant development, and teamwork
- Enthusiasm for problem-solving and non-routine project work
- Previous credit control experience**Desirable Skills & Experience**:

- Knowledge of basic accounting principles- Experience working with Sage200

**About High Speed Training**:
Having been awarded the prestigious accolade from Best Companies for our world class levels of engagement, we recently secured our place as the 3rd best company to work for in the Education and Training sector and we have no plans to stop there.

**What you can expect in return**:
Our people are at the heart of our business and we offer a great environment where we have fun, celebrate success and give you all the tools you'll need for a rewarding career with a team who are passionate about what they do.

**Our competitive benefits package includes**:

- A home office allowance
- 26 days holiday with the option to buy extra days
- Pension (4% employee, 4% employer contributions)
- From day one: Access to Reward Gateway - high street, travel, leisure discounts and our EAP, Curio subscription
- After 3 months/probation: Profit sharing scheme (if starting before the cut off date)
- After 6 months: Latest mobile phone & contract (or sim only), Life Assurance (4 x basic salary), optionalPrivate medical cover (you & family), Company car scheme (electric car lease), General Health cash plan, Dental cash plan, discounted gym membership

We are fully committed to supporting our staff to work in a flexible way that allows them to balance their commitments inside and outside of work. As we grow, we want our teams to work in a way that lets them be at their best, whether that's on-site or remotely anywhere in the UK, traditional or flexible working hours.