Senior Finance Officer, Invoicing

Company Description
ProPharma Group is an industry leading, single source provider for regulatory compliance, pharmacovigilance, and medical information services across the full development lifecycle for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Operating around the world with offices in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States, ProPharma Group’s fully integrated service offerings will provide clients with a comprehensive suite of global support services that are required to be competitive in today’s dynamic markets. We build successful long-term relationships with clients by providing leading industry knowledge, experience, and proven processes.

**Job Description**:
This Senior Finance Officer (Invoicing) position is responsible for the sales ledger function of the business as well as undertaking other tasks within the finance department as required. To work alongside other staff within the team to ensure that the sales invoicing function is accurate and timely and to perform various monthly reporting duties.

Essential Function Include:

- To support the finance team with regular duties and provide cover where appropriate during team absence.
- Responsibility for the sales invoicing process as a whole
- To be the main billing contact, both internally and externally, setting up good working relationships with both clients and internal staff.
- Setting up new clients in the finance system
- Processing client terminations and final invoices
- Ensuring that all fixed sales invoicing changes are captured effectively and that all changes are correctly included in the sales invoices for the month
- Working alongside other finance staff, ensuring that variable invoice information is captured and correctly charged to the client each month
- Producing and submitting sales invoices
- Updating the accounting system with all invoices and credit notes
- Ensuring that VAT is dealt with correctly on all sales invoices
- Handling all billing queries
- Record and allocate cash collected
- Credit control and ensuring that payments are received within agreed timeframes.
- Reporting net revenue each month with comparisons to budget.
- Producing monthly enquiry trackers, by team for each region.
- Reporting monthly debtor balances including narrative of actions taken for each balance outstanding.
- Month end bank & cash reconciliations including revaluation.
- Management accounts backup for key balance sheet codes connected to debtors and sales preparation.
- Filing duties
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all.
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the Company.
- Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
- Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
- Any other duties of a similar nature related to the post which may be required from time to time.

**Qualifications**:

- Demonstrable interest in a finance discipline and experience of working in a finance team.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Numeracy skills.
- Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature.
- Ability to work efficiently, accurately and meet deadlines.
- Highly motivated.
- The ability to work as a team member and build strong working relationships.
- Effective interpersonal, communication and literacy skills.
- Able to prioritise workload and work under own initiative.
- High level of flexibility and dependability.

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