Role: Accounts Receivable Assistant Location: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Salary: £ 27,000 to £29,000 plus benefits Role ID: 2025-2676 Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. The Role The Accounts Receivable (AR) Assistant plays a key role in maximising cash flow by efficiently managing all sales ledger tasks. Reporting to the Financial Controller, this role ensures timely invoicing, effective debt management, and strong collaboration with internal teams to support financial operations. Key Responsibilities • Process and distribute invoices and credit notes efficiently. • Facilitate on-time cash receipts and resolve disputes and queries promptly. • Follow the company’s dunning process to chase overdue payments. • Maintain and organise debtor reporting and monthly AR reconciliations. • Escalate slow-moving debt and address recurring payment issues. • Manage customer debit note queries and warranty claims tracking. • Ensure accurate cash receipt allocations with high scrutiny. • Monitor and manage credit limits. • Maintain accurate financial records and ensure policy compliance. • Assist with internal and external audit requests. • Support ad hoc customer queries and AR-related requests. Key Competencies and Experience • Experience in a finance function. • Strong numeracy skills and attention to detail. • Proficiency in ERP accounting software and Microsoft Excel. • Excellent organisational and problem-solving abilities. • Effective communication and teamwork skills. • Ability to manage workload independently and drive process improvements. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Next steps Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruitricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. LI-JT1