Are you passionate about animals and looking to advance your career in finance? Covetrus is a global animal health technology and services company dedicated to advancing the world of veterinary medicine. With over 5,500 employees across 19 countries, we are committed to supporting passions, fostering opportunities, and establishing progressive practices.
We are seeking an Accounts Assistant to join our friendly team in the Edinburgh office on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our finance team and be part of a global organisation that makes a positive impact to our vet customers and pet owners.
Essential Duties:
1. Creating sales invoices
2. Creating customer credit notes using approved process
3. Setting up and maintaining customer accounts
4. Generating monthly customer statements
5. Regularly liaising with other departments including Sales, Customer Service and Operations
6. Chasing overdue balances with the support of the business units
7. Resolving outstanding balances, dealing with customer queries via telephone and email
8. Reconciling corporate accounts and individual customer accounts
9. Advising Management Accountant on any potential bad debt – quarterly basis
10. Attend and participate in weekly debt collection meetings by updating and keeping manager informed of current statuses
11. Generate monthly aged debtors’ reports
12. Processing bank transactions daily with high degree of accuracy
13. Reconciling bank transactions daily
14. Creating journal entries for accounting corrections
15. Processing supplier invoices with high degree of accuracy for two companies
16. Processing staff expenses in line with company expense policy for two companies
17. Preparing bi-monthly payment runs for approval and paying approved payment runs through the banks (creation of BACS files) for two companies
18. Completing any ad hoc payments as required
19. Answering queries from suppliers
20. Reconciling supplier statement will follow-up action on queries
21. Setting up and maintaining supplier accounts
Other – (5%)
22. Assisting with audit requirements
23. Supporting Management Accountant with any reporting requests