Finance Assistant (Accounts Receivable)

Finance Assistant (Accounts Receivable) FTC

Contract: 6-month fixed term, part-time or full-time hours available (minimum 28 hours per week across 4 days), Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm

Location: Home based, fully remote

Salary: £23,790 per annum

As a Finance Assistant at our client, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth and efficient financial operations. Your main responsibilities will include billing, credit control, and reconciling client accounts, helping to ensure that invoices are processed accurately, and payments are received on time.

You will work closely with internal teams and client billing contacts to resolve queries, manage confidential financial data, and maintain strong professional relationships. With excellent attention to detail and strong numerical skills, you’ll handle large volumes of financial data while ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies.

This is a great opportunity for someone with finance experience who is highly organised, proactive, and confident working independently. If you have a keen eye for detail, enjoy problem-solving, and have experience using Microsoft Office, especially Excel, this role offers the flexibility of remote working and the chance to be part of a supportive and dynamic team.

Main responsibilities

• Undertake billing, credit control and retainer reconciliation duties for a portfolio of clients.
• Ensure that clients are billed/invoiced for all goods and services commissioned on a timely basis with reference to a range of operations systems.
• Undertake credit control to ensure that all customers settle all invoices within terms, escalating on a timely basis having explored all obvious avenues where that’s not the case.
• Resolve all customer billing queries working with Customer Service colleagues to investigate all requests for credit notes.
• Establish strong and professional working relationships with billing contacts that are formed within your client portfolio.
• Manage confidential data in line with the Data Protection Act.
• General admin duties.
• Contribute ideas and suggestions to continuously improve the Customer Experience.
• Assisting with colleagues work during absence.

Requirements for this role

Essential:

• Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent (A-C in Maths and English)
• Experience in finance clerical roles
• Experience of dealing with large volumes of data and financial information
• Knowledge of Outlook and intermediate to advanced Excel
• Excellent numerical skill and attention to detail
• An ability to use initiative and to work independently
• You must live in the UK and possess Right to Work in the UK

Preferable:

• Experience in Accounts Receivable
• Knowledge of SAGE or similar billing platforms although training will be given
• Knowledge of Word and PowerPoint

How to apply

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