Job Title: Accounts Assistant (Credit Control)
Report To: Financial Controller
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
Hours: Monday to Friday - 39 hours per week, 1 day working from home
Benefits:
- Private medical insurance
- Increasing annual leave with service
- Additional annual leave salary sacrifice scheme
- Employee discount platform
- On-site gym
- med24 digital GP
- EAP
- Bike2work
- Much More!
Responsibilities:
- Ownership of sales ledger and credit control
- Support month-end and quarter-end activities related to accounts receivable
- Daily posting of proforma (bank and cheque) and factored payments into ERP system.
- Setting up and managing customer accounts, including obtaining credit limits.
- Ensure the resolution of customer financial queries by communicating with Customer Services and Sales Team.
- Ensure effective credit control across all customer accounts with the timely collection of debts (including sending customer statements, debtor letters etc.)
- Close monitoring of aged debt, reporting 60+ day overdue items to the Finance Controller and our credit insurers.
- Monitor order review screen, releasing and holding orders to be despatched as required.
- Upload factored debts to RBS Facflow portal daily.
- Weekly and monthly reconciliation of factoring account, obtaining invoice finance aged debt report at month end.
- Monthly reconciliation of NMBS customer account.
- Monthly upload of customer buying group figures to reconcile rebates.
Essential Skills and Experience Required:
- Previous experience in an accounts role, ideally with sales ledger responsibilities
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and assertiveness
- Comfortable communicating with customers by phone
- Excellent time management
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook)
- A calm, level-headed approach
- AAT level 3
Desired Skills and Experience Required:
- Experience working with Merlin Business Software/ Microsoft Business Central
- AAT Qualified (Level 4)
Personal Attributes:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Commercially minded
- Strong communication skills
- Enthusiastic and team focused
- Driven professionally
Company overview:
Deanta is an ISO9001-certified, leading supplier of internal doors, hardware and ancillary products to door specialists, builders’ merchants, and independent door shops across the UK.
Our doors are designed, manufactured, tested, and delivered to our customers by Deanta employees. Having full control of the process from end to end sets us apart from our competitors, allowing us to deliver a consistent and superior product to the UK market.
All our employees have the opportunity to gain great autonomy and experience in our stimulating, diverse, and dynamic environment.
Our continued success is driven by our ability to produce high-quality doors at competitive and accessible costs, pivoting to meet customer needs and bringing new and innovative designs to market. All of this is delivered by our agile and forward-thinking team.
Full Deanta benefits and company policies at https://deantawood.co.uk/career-deanta/
Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
