Accounts Receivable Specialist

**Role**:Accounts Receivable Specialist

**Location**:Blackburn, BB1 2FA - Office Based

**Contract**:Full-Time Hours / Permanent

**Salary**:£23,860 - £27,000 Dependent on experience & Bonus Scheme

**Company**: EG Group

**About the Role**

Our Transactional Shared Services team is expanding, and we have an exciting opportunity available for an Accounts Receivable Clerk In this role, you play a key part in ensuring a smooth end-to-end sales process for the organisation. Your efforts will contribute towards our wider finance strategy and will be an essential part of how we operate our business.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Monitoring the end-to-end cash process & investigating any discrepancies in between
- Daily importing of cash processing reports onto SAP
- Communicating and documenting discrepancy + forgery reports
- Posting of debtors invoices and credit notes and allocation of cash receipts to customer accounts
- Monthly reconciliation of cash and card GL’s - Involves writing off within a certain threshold and investigating outside of that threshold
- Posting ad hoc journals when appropriate
- Missing sales monitoring, escalation and resolution
- Upload fuel sales, shop sales and investigating any variances
- Escalating any issues in a timely and appropriate manner
- Bank Reconciliations on a monthly basis
- Sales Reconciliation
- General administration and other ad-hoc duties as required

This list is not exhaustive and may be added to or amended from time to time.
- Proven experience in an Accounts Receivable role, preferably in a Shared Services environment
- Excellent client and customer service skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office products
- Must have strong academic record and experience in Finance
- You will need to be a good communicator with the ability to present and explain financial information to all levels of management with a high standard of written skills.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to meet demanding deadlines
- Able to adapt style of communication depending on the audience and the nature of the information being communicated

**Benefits & Rewards**
- Performance Based Bonus Scheme
- Employee Life Assurance
- EG Group Discounts - up to 15% off at our stores and food to go restaurants
- ASDA Discount Card - 10% off all ASDA stores
- EG Cares Benefits - exclusive discounts across 900 retailers
- Smart Health - 24/7 online GP access, health checks and health and wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Programme - access to our Wellbeing Centre which offers emotional & practical support including free financial advice
- Learning & Development - access to our Learning Hub, the most extensive online course library in the world to support you with every step of your career at EG Group
- Waterside Café - freshly prepared meals at affordable prices
- Free Secure Car Parking
- Dress Down Fridays
- Flexi-Time
- Prayer and Ablution Facilities
- Cycle to Work / Shower Facilities
- Sit / Stand Desk Facilities
- Work Anniversary Rewards
- Free Eye Test

**_Who are EG Group?_**
- EG Group is one of the world’s leading independent convenience retailers with an extensive network of sites across international markets in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Continental Europe, Australia and the United States of America._
- Founded in 2001 by the Issa family with the acquisition of a single site in the UK, today the company is at the forefront of delivering an innovative approach to forecourt convenience retail._
- At EG Group, we pride ourselves on being recognised for our investment model, trading performance and more importantly, providing a best-in-class customer experience in Grocery & Merchandise, Foodservice and Fuel._
- Our transformational convenience retail business model has been built upon excellent relationships with an extensive portfolio of leading retail brands, and through strategic network acquisitions supported by a program of new-to-industry developments._
- Every day, our committed workforce tirelessly delivers our products and services to millions of customers alongside supporting the local communities in which we operate._