Location: Hybrid / Ridge National Offices
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At Ridge and Partners, we offer client care and proactive advice that very few, if any can match, offering a full multi-disciplinary service or standalone specialist technical services for projects in excess of £100 million in value, throughout the UK, across Europe and the rest of the World.
Due to significant business growth, organically and through acquisitions, we are looking for an experienced Accounting Services Manager to oversee the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Teams.
Our culture is supportive, with our core values being Quality & Reliability; Proactive and Creative; Agile & Flexible; Entrepreneurial & Dynamic.
The successful applicant will have/be:
A positive and strong can do attitude
The ability to bring fresh ideas
Great communications skills, both verbally and written
Attention to detail
Team player
Role and Responsibilities
Working within the Finance Team and reporting to the Financial Controller:
Lead a combined Team of 7 staff providing direction, support and mentoring.
Monitoring workloads and re-directing resource throughout the month to ensure all tasks are completed.
Overseeing the month end close of the purchase and sales ledgers to the agreed timetable.
Advise AP and AR on best practice and encourage high standards of work and service to the business to match Ridge core values
Ensuring agreed policies and processes are adhered to and proactively developed to meet the needs of the business as it transitions through growth.
Providing support and guidance to the business to ensure processes are understood and followed.
Accounts Payable
Monitoring the accounts payable inbox to ensure tasks are effectively channelled and queries are responded to on a timely basis.
Monitoring unapproved POs and invoices and ensuring invoices are processed and paid by their due dates.
Overseeing new supplier set up.
Reviewing aged creditors to ensure the ledgers are tidily maintained and undertaking routine supplier statement reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy of liabilities.
Overseeing the weekly payment runs.
Accounts Receivable
Monitoring the accounts receivable inbox to ensure tasks are effectively channelled and queries are responded to on a timely basis.
Overseeing the monthly statement process
Oversight of legal actions
Reviewing the sales ledger to ensure balances are kept clean and tidy: Ensuring cash and credit notes correctly allocated on a timely basis.
Monitoring and helping to resolve unallocated cash.
Preparing weekly Top 25 overdue debt analysis.
Identifying bad debt exposures and escalating these at the monthly debtors review meeting.
Calculating and monitoring debtor days
Experience and Skills Required
Essential
Experience of managing staff, working within a multi-sited and growing business.
Can demonstrate a proactive approach to team and process development.
Credit management experience.
Strong academic results to degree level preferable.
A strong working knowledge of excel
Desirable
Knowledge of Sage 200 and other relevant ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics
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