Accurate and timely processing of cash and other receivables related duties to ensure debtor ledgers are accurate.
We're BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm providing advice and solutions to entrepreneurial organisations. We work with high-growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising owners and management teams.
Our Finance team helps us meet legal requirements, implement innovative strategies, and combine new technology with traditional financial processes. As part of this team, you'll enjoy flexible hours, take responsibility for delivering quality work, and have opportunities to make an impact on the firm's future.
You'll be someone who is comfortable working proactively, managing your own tasks, and collaborating with others to communicate with senior managers, directors, and partners. You'll identify opportunities to enhance our delivery and provide additional services to organisations we work with.
This is a shared role in a team of 4 or 5, assisting in the Accounts Receivable and Credit Management function. You'll be responsible for accurate and timely processing of cash and other receivables related duties, ensuring debtor ledgers are accurate.
Key responsibilities:
* Accurately allocate client receipts against debtors ledgers on a daily basis
* Liaise with credit controllers and other parties daily on allocations
* Record receipts into non-sterling accounts
* Process adjustments to cash postings where required
* Process refunds where correctly approved and credit card payments from clients made via online portal
* Collate, process and bank cheques as well as process unpaid cheques
* Process write-offs and bad debt requests where required
* Issue of Sundry (non WIP) fees for the business
* Ensure all electronic filing is up to date and accurate
* Credit control for debts owed by member firm network
* Assist with main credit control function, including contacting clients, where necessary
* Print copy invoices and client statements as required by supervisor or manager
* Handle and resolve all basic day-to-day client and business queries
* Liaise with other key functions of the business as and when required
You'll be someone with:
* Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing
* An ability to follow a structured process to ensure compliance but able to work on own initiative to resolve queries promptly and accurately
* Numeracy and attention to detail skills
* The ability to prioritise own workload to meet deadlines from supervisor
* A willingness to consider improvements to processes and the ability to discuss with supervisor
We're committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand. We'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.
Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values, and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.
We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues. We've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.
We help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK, thousands of unique minds come together to help companies achieve their ambitions.