Accounts Receivable Clerk

Investigo are currently working exclusively with a company in St Albans to recruit a new Accounts Receivable Clerk to join their fast-growing business. The role reports into the Accounts Receivable Manager and will give you a great understanding of finance processes to progress your finance career.

Purpose of the role/Job summary

The AR team is responsible for creation and collection of residents fees/invoices. This includes the maintenance of accurate resident records, ensuring increases and deductions are processed in line with resident contracts. The team is also expected to handle any resident and family queries with regarding billed amounts and engage in the collection of unpaid fees.

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for a portfolio of sites within the group and efficiently manage the production and distribution of the monthly billing run
• Complete the new resident set up within the system, review all new residents agreements and ensure billing lines, dates, values & offsets to third parties are all aligned, identify differences, work closely with community personnel to address queries.
• Continually update and maintain all resident and 3rd party/offset billing lines following instructions from the sites
• Receive, review and setup up direct debit mandates with the bank for new residents and support the production of the monthly Direct Debit collections process
• Attend and contribute to the monthly Aged Debt review meeting with the AR Manager.
• Daily posting of all bank transactions
• Agree and arrange refunds for credit balances regarding move outs.
• Support internal and external audit

What's on offer

A progressive position within a fast-growing organisation. The ability to learn and develop in a finance career, with perks such as a competitive salary and hybrid model - plus great company benefits.

The Successful Candidate

The company are looking for a forward thinking, progressive candidate with a great attitude to learn. A good knowledge of Excel and finance systems is preferred, with a good attention to detail and level of self-motivation.