Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant – Ripon - £28,000 - £30,000 per annum plus excellent benefits

Our client is a well-established company based in Ripon, due to continued growth and expansion they are now looking to recruit an office-based Finance Assistant based at their offices in Ripon.

As the Finance Assistant you will play an important role within the credit control department in meeting cash flow requirements with a strong emphasis on building and maintaining client relationships ensuring service standards are of the highest level.

Duties and Responsibilities:

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• Opening new accounts and responsible for the day-to-day management of your customer base.
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• Establish and maintain internal and external customer relationships at all levels in a calm and professional manner.
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• Ensure as necessary all calls, letters, statements and follow up actions are carried out in order to bring the matter to the customer’s attention to obtain payment of due/overdue depts.
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• Ensure the timely and pro-active co-ordination of payments in relation to cash collection and aged debt reduction.
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• Resolving queries both internally and externally around outstanding invoices.
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• Agree, negotiate, and enforce re-payment plans.
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• Liaise directly with the Credit Control Manager to escalate issues with payment for 3rd party collection agencies.
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• Maintain customer records notifying the relevant department of changes required and logging and dealing with queries.
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• Managing credit limits in-line with relevant authorisations and escalate where required to the Credit Control Manager.
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• Ensuring processes are followed as part of the collection requirements, account reconciliation and payments.
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• Have a flexible approach to an ever-changing workload with the ability to prioritise.
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Skills & Qualifications:

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• Competent with Microsoft Office products especially Excel and experience of using finance systems.
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• Have an excellent telephone manner.
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Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm

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