Accounts Assistant (AR+CC) - UK Shift

About Sheffield Haworth

Sheffield Haworth is a global consultancy founded in 1993. We have a history of assisting our clients in realising their potential and delivering a competitive advantage in a fast-changing world. Our vision is to be a leading global consultancy in people and transformational change. Our services include executive search, on-demand and interim executives, strategic research and advisory, change consulting, and leadership advisory.

Clients benefit from deep industry insights, our wide-ranging networks and high standards of delivery from our global team. We work with private and public companies across financial services, real assets, professional and business services, high-growth technologies, and multinational corporates.

Since its inception in 1993, Sheffield Haworth has undergone significant growth and expansion. We now employ a team of over 180 professionals in 15 financial centres throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and disability-confident, committed employer.

s.sethi@sheffieldhaworth.com

Accounts Assistant

Due to continued business growth, we are expanding the finance team, the role will report into the Group Finance Manager and India Finance Manager. The two main responsibilities for this role will be credit control and India sales invoice processing.

An Accounts Assistant at Sheffield Haworth will have a strong focus on customer service and will be required to run our credit control for global B2B clients. The ideal candidate will have a resilient character and enjoys a fast-paced working environment and building relationships. The successful candidate will have:

• Experience investigating and resolving client queries
• Experience in prior credit control role, preferably global with global clients
• Reconciling statements, problem solving and managing the escalations
• Build strong supplier relationships, have challenging conversations and confidence to push for a resolution
• Proactively seek ways to collect outstanding payments from customer accounts, using telephone/email

Duties and Responsibilities of a Group Credit Controller and Accounts Receivable assistant include:

• Handling the sales invoice process for the Indian entity with assistance by the India Finance Manager including monthly reconciliations/ maintaining sales registers and debtor reporting.
• Maintaining and updating group debtor schedule for invoices issued/ paid dates and invoice status updates.
• Updating payments in debtor schedule, accounting software, CRM and sales registers. Monthly reconciliations of records to ensure accuracy of data.
• Ensure customers payments are received on time in line with payment terms
• Resolve queries and communicate with external customers and internal stakeholders
• Manage group reporting requirements for credit control responsibilities and holding weekly debtor meetings with the finance and legal team to highlight any escalation issues.
• Supporting wider finance function with any ad hoc tasks as required

What do you need to succeed?

• Experience with maintaining spreadsheets with high accuracy, strong attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset
• Experience with the end-to-end process for handling India sales invoices would be beneficial
• Experience in with high value low volume transactions would be desirable
• Systems and IT focused with immediate Microsoft Excel skills with working knowledge of SAP Business One or an equivalent accounting/ERP product (e.g. Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics)
• Good communicator and strong team player
• 5 years plus experience is desirable in credit control including engaging with senior internal/ external stakeholders, handling customer chasers/ escalations and complaints.
• Strong English language skills

Organizational Skills

• Excellent time management skills.
• Effectively prioritizes and meets deadlines.
• Quickly and accurately meets team and company requirements.

Ethics

• Proactively seeks new areas of opportunity.
• Is adaptable, flexible and displays a willing approach.
• Takes a pride in consistently achieving the highest standard regardless of task.

Attributes

• Bright, articulate (both oral and written) and well presented.
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills.
• Strong organizational, project management and problem-solving skills with impeccable multi-tasking abilities.
• Ability to archive and assimilate information quickly.
• Microsoft Office skills, with an ability to become familiar with firm-specific programs and software.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Well organized with a calm, unflappable temperament.
• High energy and work ethic, team player

*In terms of work hours, the team is based in United Kingdom and your work hours will reflect this time zone (12:30-21:30 Hrs. IST)*

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s.sethi@sheffieldhaworth.com