Senior Accounts Assistant

£30,000 - £35,000

Hybrid Working

London

Leading b2b events business seeks an experienced Senior Accounts Assistant to join their business.

We are looking for a highly experienced, enthusiastic, results-focused person to support the accounts team. The Senior Accounts Assistant is responsible for credit control, sale and purchase ledger and payroll. Having the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment with non-negotiable deadlines is a necessity.

Responsibilities:

Credit Control

• Implementing company’s Credit Control Policy

• Establishes terms of credit and ensures timely payment by customer, renegotiates payment terms and initiates legal action to recover debts if necessary.
• Reducing company’s current outstanding debtors balance buy chasing payment using the telephone, email or letter.
• Issuing statements and reminder letters.
• Dealing with debt collection agencies.
• Monitor and report on aged debtors reports weekly or as required.
• Clearing Sales Ledger account balances, keeping sales ledger tidy.
• Responsible for refund & credit note process.
• Carries out general accounting and administrative work.

Purchase ledger

• Processing invoicing/credit card expenses from purchase order posting on Netsuite to payment.
• Banking - postings, payments, refunds and statements & reconciliations
• Credit card reconciliations. Processing credit card & staff expenses Managing the process and resources of purchase ledger.
• Dealing with day-to-day queries in relation to suppliers and customers.

Essential Skills, Traits and Qualifications

• Experience in a role of a similar type.
• Demonstrated track record of working with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and oral communications.
• Working knowledge of Oracle, Netsuite, Concur Expenses Management, Sage Payroll.
• Intermediate Excel, Word & Outlook.
• Ability to extract information from databases.
• Team player who is comfortable working with and gaining commitment from personnel across different functional groups.

Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities.

We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs. Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.

We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.