Accounts Receivable Assistant

The Role

Accounts Receivable Assistant

Baldonnel - Permanent

Salary: €32,000 - €38,000

Office Based Role

My client is seeking to appoint an experienced Accounts Receivable Assistant on a per full time permanent basis.

Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar role.

Experience of using an ERP system would be a distinct advantage

Strong Excel skills are required for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitoring and Collection of past due receivables, Credit Management, Cash Application, and Accounts Receivable Maintenance.
Work closely with Order Administration and the Sales Team to set up new customers, establish appropriate credit limits, respond to requests, and resolve customer issues.
Help to ensure monthly cash forecasts established are delivered upon.
Manage customer accounts including monthly reconciliations
Collection calls/emails/correspondence
Effectively analyse all outstanding customer aging to identify collection priorities.
Follow up on any queries, missing invoices, invoice discrepancies and disputes
Resolve discrepancies through liaising with key internal stakeholders (AP team, sales team)
Escalate when necessary
Working with and supporting Financial Auditors
Other ad-hoc duties, projects and assignments as needed or directed by the Management Team.
Analyse customer credit profiles and exposure, compare against policy to make risk driven credit decisions and balancing business benefit with risk
Ongoing credit checks

Key Skills:

Excellent numerical skills.
Computer literacy and a high level of Excel expertise is essential.
Two years’ experience in Finance/Admin role using business systems.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
High attention to detail and a high level of accuracy with numbers.
ERP (SAP, Oracle, Sybiz) experience preferable.
Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
Good communicator and team player.
Self-motivated, with the ability to multi-task, work independently and effectively organise and prioritise workload.
Proactive, hands-on approach to learning.