Accounts Assistant

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom WorldLine Full time

**A summary of the role**:

- Focus on **Accounts Receivables (AR) / Credit Control** for Ingenico UK Limited
- Customers based primarily in UK and across several EU countries
- Terminals, Solutions & Services global business unit
- Reporting to the Ingenico UK Chief Accountant
- Based in Dalgety Bay, Fife

**Your day-to-day responsibilities include**:

- Perform Credit risk assessment of potential and current customers and provide recommendations
- Maintain customer account details, credit limits, payment terms
- Cash collection activities including frequent and systematic communication using all communication channels including customer calls; log of all interactions
- Meet cash collection and overdue targets set by the Company
- Work closely with all relevant stakeholders including internal Finance colleagues, Chief Accountant, Sales and Sales support teams
- Support the production and issuing of invoices and invoice statements (often via customer invoice portals)
- Allocation of cash; daily postings of payments to debtor accounts
- Reconciliations of daily banking, balance sheet accounts, and various data
- Capture customer disputes around invoicing and proactively follow-up with customer and Sales support teams in order to resolve
- Perform a forecast of cash collection based on data and knowledge of customer behaviour
- Update cash books and perform reconciliations of data
- Create credit notes requested by sales support teams
- Assessing and releasing blocked sales orders including risk assessment, on daily basis
- Managing Direct Debit payments
- Performing month-end closing activities including financial reporting
- Preparation of information for journal entries
- Produce relevant management information
- Support internal and external audit activity
- Focus on internal control
- Support Group-driven special finance projects

**Signs of success**
- You deliver high quality and timely output
- You are extremely proactive and a self-starter
- You seek continuous process improvement and implement
- You consistently take action and follow-through on commitments
- You have excellent relationships with multiple stakeholders in a matrix organisation

**Skills we can’t do without**:

- Essential: - proven experience working within a credit control environment
- You are highly numerate, with excellent Excel skills
- You have first class written and oral communication skills
- You possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships at all levels
- You have a strong commitment to providing first rate financial support to the business
- You have strong organisational skills, balancing demands and working to tight deadlines with an ability to work on your own initiative
- You are ethical, discrete, and confidential
- A strong team player with a positive attitude

**Skills we’d like**:

- Knowledge of SAP would be a strong advantage
- Understanding of the commercial and accounting aspects of Imports/Exports and VAT
- German language would be beneficial

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