Ledger Team Leader

Location South Kent
Salary Up to £40k
Contract Permanent
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Cobb & Jones Recruitment are partnering exclusively with our client who are a rapidly expanding international manufacturing business. The role will be joining the team in a smaller division and offers great opportunity to develop your career as the business achieves continued growth.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Deliver high quality and timely ledger reporting with robust analysis and recommendations for improvement

·       Responsible for oversight of AP, AR ledgers ensuring accurate, timely posting

·       Daily monitoring of GRNI and invoice inboxes

·       Responsible for expenses process including applications for new cards, paying expenses and ensuring people submit on time.

·       Lead the month end closing process for AP and AR including reconciliation and report preparation.

·       Responsibility for monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts.

·       Help to develop digital strategy to manage new government duty to report requirements.

·       Manage and support Accounts Receivable team to ensure DSO targets are hit and bad debt is minimised.

·       Issue weekly reports to the business detailing balances due and overdue by customer and supplier using excel, pivots and developing a automated digital replacement.

·       Manage Accounts payable to ensure invoice queries resolved in a timely manner and suppliers paid on time.

·       Perform supplier and customer account reconciliations

·       Work closely with procurement team to work on queries with suppliers

·       Provide support to finance team on ad-hoc tasks as requested

·       Support year-end processes as required

·       Posting General ledger journals

·       Assist with SOX testing

·       Carries out such other duties that may be reasonably requested.

 

The Ideal Candidate:

·       Management experience.

·       Strong communication skills – ability to communicate cross functionally.

·       Desire to be helpful and find solutions for the business.

·       Experience of month end closing processes

·       Excel skills – Intermediate – look up tables and pivot tables

·       Excellent verbal and communication skills

·       Ability to multitask and work independently

·       Good organisational skills – ability to plan and prioritise a busy workload.

·       Keen eye for detail ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.

·       Great customer service

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Consultant

Joanne Gruodienė

Associate Director