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Accounts Receivable Assistant

West Malling, Kent

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Are you a School Leaver? Are you looking to kickstart your career within finance? Do you enjoy working on excel? If you’ve answered yes, then you could be the right person to join the Accounts Receivable team in our Kings Hill office, ME19 4UA.

What you can expect as an Accounts Receivable Assistant:

Salary of £24,000
Permanent Contract
Work on a hybrid basis from our Kings Hill office

Not only are we offering a competitive salary and a fantastic bonus scheme, you’ll also be entitled to loads of great benefits including, discount and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops and private health insurance, plus much more.

As our new Accounts Receivable Assistant you will be responsible for ensuring that all payments received into the business are processed onto the system accurately, and will need to have the ability to work towards strict deadlines.

This is a great opportunity to kickstart your career in finance – but don’t worry, we don’t expect you to have experience within this field! If your good at using your own initiative, driven, and enjoy working with excel spreadsheets you could thrive within this position.

Key responsibilities include:

To ensure all collections – cheques, postal orders, card payments, direct debits, bank payments, payment cards, payment files - are reconciled using Excel skills and processed into the collections system.
To ensure all payments and payment files have been processed accurately and all the necessary checks performed to ensure the funds are applied to the correct customer accounts.
To ensure all queries are resolved within a 24-hour SLA period.
To produce weekly/monthly Excel reports
To ensure unidentified income is processed, investigated, and resolved as per Company policy/FCA policy.
To support the Team Leader and other Finance team members in query solving, cross training and development of the role
Statement reconciliations, invoice approvals and Third-Party correspondence
To process high volume customer refunds accurately and within SLA’s

We are looking for someone with:

Desire to gain accounting knowledge.
Looking to start a career within a professional finance environment.
A good problem solver and able to take initiative.
Being self-motivated to work in a busy, fast paced environment.
Computer literate with intermediate/advanced Microsoft Excel skills. You will need to learn VLookups and pivot tables formulas.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy is a must.
Good numerical ability
Able to work under pressure with a drive to meet daily deadlines.
Self-motivated, flexible, and hard working with a positive attitude.
Excellent communicator with maturity to build effective confident working relationships.

What happens next?

If this sounds like you and you’d like to join our rapidly expanding company that offers excellent career progression, then apply now!

Working for Cabot:

You’ll be working for an award winning; Investors in People Gold accredited organisation. We’re passionate about the ethical treatment of our customers and employees. Our mission is to create pathways to economic freedom. Our vision is to make credit accessible by partnering with our consumers to restore their financial health.

Diversity and inclusion are very important to us at Cabot, and we value a multitude of diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone. Our policies ensure that every candidate and employee are treated fairly and with equal opportunities.

**At Cabot we are highly regulated by our clients, as such, any successful candidates will have to undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check. Please note that we are unable to proceed to interview stage if a CCJ, IVA or Bankruptcy appears on a credit file, or if you do not have full right to work in the UK – we are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship.

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