Accounts Receivable Assistant

3 weeks ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Connells Group Full time

Countrywide is part of the Connells group, the UK’s largest estate agency and property services business incorporating many well-known high street brands: Hamptons, Abbotts, Bairstow Eves, Taylors Estate Agents, are but a few. The Countrywide finance team is bringing back in house the accounting functions that are currently outsourced in India and looking to build on existing processes and enhance the quality of service. As part of this project we are creating an expanded Finance Team in Milton Keynes

As part of the team, you will be responsible for ensuring income into the businesses is accurately accounted for whilst ensuring we have robust procedures in place for issue resolution. This will be needed during a period of significant process and system change in the business following on-shoring.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**
- Preparation of income imports from source data and upload import template to sales ledger. Ensuring coding of income is accurate and posted on a timely basis.
- Prepare income reconciliations to raw data (management information and statements from Mortgage Intelligence) to ensure income imports are complete and accurate and reconcile to third party source data.
- Allocate all receipts and payments to open items on the sales ledger.
- Investigate all unallocated income promptly to minimise unallocated cash balances.
- Follow up unpaid items with lenders and colleagues in the businesses
- Provide explanations for old unpaid items and unallocated cash balances to management.
- Maintain a log of remittances to reconcile to the bank statement on a daily basis. Follow up non receipt of remittances with lenders.
- Raise adhoc invoices as required.
- Preparation and review of Aged Debtors report on a monthly basis. Ensure correctly aged, reconciled to the trial balance and signed off by management.
- Assist with bank reconciliations by posting lender and broker receipts.
- Support the year-end audit process ensuring key deliverables are available on time and liaising with the external audit team with query resolution
- Develop processes and controls as part of on-shoring the AR function (and wider finance function) within the FS Business Unit

**Position Requirements**

Education & Qualifications:

- The role may suit someone AAT qualified or qualified by experience

**Experience**:

- 2 years experience in a similar role is required
- Experience of implementing a change to AR processes is ideal, but not essential

Skills & Personal Qualities:

- Strong numerical and analytical skills with an attention to detail
- Strong communication skills, in particular the ability to communicate complex financial information in plain English
- Experience of Microsoft Office suite, in particular Excel
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and work under own initiative
- Demanding of high performance from oneself and from others

**Communications and Working Relationships**:
Internal
- Close working relationship with the Head of Operational Finance and the finance team
- Interaction with internal sales and operational teams to resolve queries and disputes

External
- External auditors
- Liaising with administrative services company based in India (short-term only)

CF00139

Job Reference: CF00139

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