Ap-ar Controller

**Scope of Role**:
To provide support to the Finance Director and lead the Accounts Payables & Receivables across the business.

**Main Duties/Responsibilities**:
**Accounts Receivables**:

- Drive the collection of all outstanding monies and ensure that monthly targets are met
- Participate in the weekly/daily cash collection meetings
- Post and allocate daily cash collections
- Undertake account reconciliation of the AR ledger
- Addressing any debts issues and identifying what is required to resolve them
- Driving resolution of queries, working with other departments
- Ensure customers pay to agreed payment terms
- Manage reporting requirements internal and external on AR
- Carry out credit checks regularly on existing and new customers and ensure adherence to the credit limit
- Perform monthly credit limit checks to production plan resolving anticipated credit issues prior to shipping
- Respond promptly and completely to both customer and internal enquires
- Control accounts receivable query log, working with other departments to resolve issues
- Issue weekly query tracker
- Maintain customer contact database
- Prepare and send out statements

**Accounts Payable**:

- Lead the AP processing of suppliers invoices and any other AP activities;
- Pay outstanding monies according the forecast submitted and ensure that monthly targets are met;
- Prepare the monthly and weekly forecast on payments and ensure that Purchasing is involved in highlighting at forecasting stage any critical suppliers in need of payment;
- Prepare the monthly reconciliation of the AP ledger according with Group requirements;
- Manage any AP issues and identify what is required to resolve them;
- Prepare monthly KPI’s on AP activity (invoices received, booked in the system, etc );
- Manage all reporting requirements internal and external on AP;
- Liaise with Purchasing to ensure that GRN issues are resolved promptly;
- Document, communicate and govern the AP processes;
- Ensuring that all interactions and engagements are carried out with the highest ethical and professional standards and that all work is accomplished with quality and in accordance with the Company and Corporate values;

**Other Responsibilities/Non-essential Functions**:

- Provide first line contact for all internal Finance queries on site.
- Provide ad hoc data analysis support to wider operations and customer service team.
- Provide cover and support for colleagues at sister company sites.
- Assist with monthly KPI’s
- Undertake other Finance related activities that are considered to reasonably form part of the role, or which may be short or long term business requirements.
- Undertake all other reasonable requests that are made by the role manager/acting manager or Directors.
- Undertake training that is identified as a requirement of the role as identified by the role Manager.
- At times of reduced department staff attendance there will be a need to be flexible and provide support outside of the normal tasks of the job to ensure customer satisfaction.
- On occasion you maybe required to take on ad hoc duties which includes, but is not limited to training, department associated tasks and brief secondment to other departments.

**Standard Company Responsibilities**:

- Take responsibility for understanding the Business Management System/SOP and how it is applied to the role.
- Adhere to Health and Safety requirements at all times.
- There is a responsibility on all employees to bring to the attention of their manager any issues that could potentially affect the business, regardless of how small they may seem at the time.
- All duties within this job description should be carried out in line with any Company policies and procedures in place at the time and in line with any requirements set out in the Business Management System.