Job Title: Accounts Receivable (Hybrid)
Location: Watford WD24 7RY, hybrid (3 days office based)
Salary: Negotiable dependant on experience
Hours of work: 40 hours per week (8.30am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday)
Who are we?
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 they supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators. 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.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Finance team as Senior Accounts Receivable. We are looking for an individual wanting to work in a creative SME who wants to be part of an innovative, high performing team. This is a senior role within our finance team and will require liaison with stakeholders of all levels within Vegetarian Express. 3 years plus previous experience in an Accounts Receivable role coupled with excellent communication skills and Excel ability are key requirements for any applicant.
Main purpose of the role:
Managing 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
- Management and review of rebates deducted
- 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
- Perform credit checks and assess new and ongoing credit limits
- Forecasting when cash will come in
- Reconciliation of the cash book by month end
- Taking a lead in ad hoc credit control projects and improving current processes
- Ad hoc tasks as required
What do you need?
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience within a similar role
- A problem-solving approach to work
- 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
- Competent in Microsoft Office Excel and accounting software programmes
- 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
In return what do we offer?
- 25 days holiday, additional annual leave purchase (up to 3 days)
- Cash health plan (money back for dentist, opticians etc.)
- Life assurance (4 x salary)
- Employee recognition & incentives
- Staff discount on ALL products
- Pension (3% employer and 5% employee)
- FREE breakfast provided through custom-made breakfast bar
- FREE PARKING
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to our employees via our Employee Assistance Programme
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Senior Credit Controller, Accounts Assistant, Senior Accounts Administrator, Accounts Clerk, Finance Clerk, Finance Administrator, Credit Control Manager, Finance Assistant, Finance Admin, Accounts Officer, Accounts Coordinator, Accounts Receivable may also be considered for this role.
