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Based in West London, hybrid working £35,000 plus benefits Great opportunity to get stuck into a broad, varied...
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- Based in West London, hybrid working
- £35,000 plus benefits
- Great opportunity to get stuck into a broad, varied role
Assistant Accountant, Skincare/Cosmetics, West London, £35,000
We are working with a global, growing skincare brand who are Bcorp certified and as sustainable as can be! (vegan too!) They manufacture all their products in the UK and have a huge focus on being a green and clean!
The CFO is on the hunt for an ambitious, intelligent junior to join his team as an Assistant Accountant and truly make an impact in the team. The role has huge scope to grow and take on more responsibility as you progress.
The role:
- Credit check new customer accounts
- Set-up of new and maintenance of existing customer accounts in NetSuite
- Ensuring correct and accurate Finance & VAT information on customer accounts;
- Review open and shipped orders in NetSuite daily;
- Ensure all shipped orders are billed daily;
- Creating and sending invoices to retailers;
- Submission of EDI invoices for specific retailers via several customer portals;
- Working with the relevant departments (internally & externally) to resolve any sales order customer queries; (price/quantity variances)
- Raise credit notes where necessary.
- Control the sales order to cash process to ensure Customers pay on time
- Contacting customers in advance of payments to confirm amounts & settlement dates
- Producing monthly customer statements;
- Monitoring the aged debt analysis;
- Identifying and collecting overdue accounts; follow the overdue debt collection dunning process. This involves contacting customers by phone or email as required;
- Prepare weekly credit reports for review, with overdue balances
- Post cash collection, allocating receipts to the customer sales ledger account daily
- Reconciling customer accounts;
- Working in multiple currencies, including GBP, EUR and USD;
- Moving smaller retailers or persistent late payers on to direct debit (Go Cardless);
- Producing weekly reports to be shared with stakeholders including Wholesale);
- Prepare weekly cashflow forecast with payments expected over the next 13 weeks
- Reconcile bank accounts
- Prepare UK VAT returns
- Prepare EU VAT returns
- Monitor US sales tax returns
- Can work well as part of a team and independently
- Efficient time / workload management
- Ambition to progress internally
- Ability to pick things up quickly and hit deadlines
- Strong communication skills
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