Job Title: Accounts Receivable Assistant (Hybrid)
Location: Hybrid with 3 days per week in the Vegetarian Express office – Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY.
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time – 40 hours per week (08:30 to 17:00)
About us:
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally we supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of independent operators and events such as The Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon and Wembley Stadium to name just a few.
Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 3 days)
- Cash health plan (money back for dentist, opticians, physio etc.)
- Life assurance (4 x salary)
- Staff discount on ALL products
- Pension (3% employer and 5% employee)
Main purpose of role:
Assisting with the credit control process from start to finish including daily cash allocation. Work closely with customer service to ensure all customer accounts are maintained, aged debt is reviewed and customer queries are escalated as required. Help with month end responsibilities including the issue of customer statements, customer sales and rebate reports. Build strong relationships with customers.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Allocate cash to invoices
- Answer phone calls and emails and logging the relevant queries
- Customer Account reconciliations
- Issue of customer statements
- Production of customer sales and rebate reports
- Proactive credit control and aged debt review, working closely with customer services to clear aged debt in query
- Chasing for any aged debt and dealing with outstanding customers queries
- Ad hoc tasks as required
Key Skills required:
- 1 year experience in a in a similar level role
- Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels
- Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail
- Calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations
- Competence in Microsoft Office Excel
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- The ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
- The ability to manage your own workload
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads
- A problem-solving approach to work
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Finance Administrator, Invoicing, Accounts, Finance Assistant, Account Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Financial Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Accounts Clerk, Finance Clerk, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control may also be considered for this role.
