Sales Ledger Assistant

2 days ago

BarrowUponHumber, United Kingdom Howarth Timber & Building Supplies Limited Full time

**About us**

With 180 years’ trading experience, the Howarth Timber Group has grown to provide not only the widest range of products, but expertise, service and knowledge you can rely on. Customers are at the heart of everything we do. With a nationwide network of branches supplying timber and building materials and a dedicated manufacturing division supplying specialist timber engineering services, the Howarth Timber Group is focused on providing market leading choice, quality, service and value.

**The Role**

Working within the Sales Ledger team to ensure prompt allocation of all daily payments timely and efficient manner and support the credit control team on a daily basis.

This is a great opportunity for someone with prior experience in an all-round accounts assistant role including sales ledgers. If you are an organised individual who has excellent communication, IT/Excel skills and are someone who pays attention to detail we want to hear from you. You will be self-motivated and will have a confident personality in order to comfortably liaise with other members of both the finance team and the wider business.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Accurate BACS coding, input and allocation
- Allocation of all payments taken at branch level that don’t auto-allocate
- Coding remittances and checking to the ledger for unpaid invoices
- Dealing with customers when chasing for a remittance/payment allocation
- Assist with other areas of the sales ledger and credit control function as required
- End of day routine for all payments taken
- Process remittances received for future payments
- Assist with setting up new customer accounts in the Kerridge system
- Dealing with customer payment queries

The above list of duties is not exhaustive, and you may be required to undertake any other duties as and when required by Management.

**Required Skills and Knowledge**:

- Experience of a busy multi branch ledger
- Excellent communication skills internally and externally
- Good PC skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word
- Prior experience of Kerridge system preferred

**What we offer**

Howarth Timber is a family-owned company valuing all colleagues, with a desire to provide colleague benefits that are truly valuable and valued by the group. Benefits include but are not limited to:

- 31 days’ holiday, inclusive of Statutory Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to purchase up to an additional 5 days’ annual leave per annum or sell up to 3 days’ annual leave per annum
- Length of service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Company sick pay
- Employee Assistance Programme, (24/7 helpline, counselling sessions, legal, debt and life management advice line)
- Colleague Merchant Branch discount
- Excellent training and development opportunities

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- BARROW-UPON-HUMBER: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (required)

**Experience**:

- a busy multi branch ledger: 1 year (preferred)
- excellent communication skills internally and externally: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location

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