Receivables/Collections Accountant – Full Time Position in office

My client is a well-established finance firm based in Harrow, Northwest London. The Company business loans and block discounting facilities on a wide range of assets and commercial equipment to UK SMEs operating in a variety of business sectors and industries.

We are looking for a Receivables/Collections Accountant reporting to the Chief Accountant and working closely with Portfolio Finance Manager and Operations Accountant.

The role involves:

• Processing direct debit runs and reconciling to billing reports by subsidiary.
• Reconciling receivables between the lease and loan management system and accounting system by subsidiary.
• Setting up payments to vendors for lease agreements and business loans for customers, monitoring
• Reconciling key receivables control accounts along with general accounting information and ad-hoc analysis reports.
• Supporting the Chief Accountant with other accounting activities as required, e.g. year end audit and bank information/reports.

Training will be provided on their lease & loan management systems, processes and documents.

Processing of Billings and Direct Debit files (some BACs files or electronic payment systems knowledge would be preferable).

This is a permanent office-based role. There may be some ability to work from home occasionally.

Suitable candidates should have strong numerical & system skills and strong focus on attention to detail and be confident with manipulating data in Excel. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, motivated and flexible.  Training will be provided on the use of our core business systems.

A training and support package can be made available to candidates taking Accountancy qualifications, these will be available on an individual candidate basis, dependent on current stage and needs.

Skills & Personal qualities

• Persistence, attention to detail, patience, common sense and commercial acumen
• Good organisational, communication and analytical skills
• Comfortable working with month end deadlines.

Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK, and are ideally comfortable with an on-site role.