Salary: Total Reward up to £25,000 Per Annum Dependent Upon Experience
Benefits: 30 days’ Annual Leave increasing to 35 days’ with length of service + Bank Holidays, Company Pension Scheme, Life Insurance x 2, Employee Discount Scheme & Free On-Site Parking
About Us
We are Polaris, one of the UK’s largest leading communities of children’s service providers.
Within the community, we have independent fostering and adoption agencies who have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years, as well as Leaving Care services, Residential, Education and bespoke children’s services contracts. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We’re ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff and believe in their futures.
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Sales Ledger and Billing Officer who will play a key role within our established finance team at our Head Office in Bromsgrove.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the Group achieves cash collection targets and minimises debts of concern. This will be achieved by the robust management of the sales ledger and billing function on a set area of the sales ledger, as well as providing support to the Credit Control Manager.
Key Responsibilities
* Raising sales invoices in line with customer invoicing terms to pre-agreed systemised billing set up
* Raising free text invoices for one-off rechargeable costs
* Chasing local authority accounts for payment of invoices and dealing with queries
* Allocating cash received against ledger
* Managing queries with regions and customers, working closely with Polaris region/home when invoicing customers, and having proactive query resolution skills.
* Reducing current debtor days on ledger to agreed target, per customer, per region
* Being effectively and efficiently organised and maintaining concise communication records.
* Ensuring that we are invoicing for all services delivered on region/home managed.
Requirements
The ideal candidate must have the following skills and experience:
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to network at all levels
* The ability to meet strict deadlines on time, every time
* Experience within a similar role and chasing Local Authorities for payments
* Experience of using Access or similar integrated system
If you’re interested in this role, please apply and we’ll be in touch.
The successful candidate will be required to complete a standard DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris.
Polaris is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
Polaris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
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