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Sales Ledger Manager

Job description

Sharp Consultancy are delighted to be partnering with a well-established organisation based in Worksop as they look to appoint an experienced Sales Ledger professional to support both their day-to-day transactional finance operations and a key finance system improvement project on a 12-month contract.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong Sales Ledger and credit control experience who has previously been involved in finance system implementations or process improvements and enjoys driving efficiencies within a finance function.

 

The Role

Alongside your core responsibilities within the finance team, you will play an important part in the implementation of enhancements to the organisation’s finance system, including the rollout of new functionality to automate bank transaction processing and improve the bank reconciliation process across multiple entities within the group.

Working closely with colleagues across the finance team, you will help ensure a smooth implementation while maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the transactional finance processes.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Process daily bank receipts and payments, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded within the finance system.

  • Manage the Sales Ledger function, including the timely and accurate raising of invoices.

  • Raise monthly and quarterly manual sales invoices where required.

  • Produce ad-hoc invoices to support operational requirements.

  • Support the credit control process to ensure effective management of outstanding debtor balances.

  • Provide mid-month debtor balance updates

  • Prepare and review customer statements and assist with the monitoring of outstanding accounts.

  • Perform debtor allocations and general ledger housekeeping to maintain accurate records.

  • Respond to and resolve customer account and payment queries in a timely manner.

  • Maintain and update customer account details within the ledger.

  • Assist in the preparation of month-end debtor and creditor reports for inclusion in the management accounts pack.

 

About You:

To be successful in this role you will ideally have:

  • Strong transactional accounting experience, particularly within Sales Ledger and credit control

  • Previous exposure to finance system implementations, upgrades or process improvements

  • Excellent IT skills, including confident use of Microsoft Excel

  • A proactive approach with the ability to identify issues and implement practical solutions

  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage deadlines effectively

  • A collaborative approach and the ability to work well within a team

 

For more information about this role please apply or drop Tom and email at tomdavage@sharpconsultancy.com

Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.