Sales Ledger Manager Jobs in City Of London, England
Field Lane Job Description
Job Title: Senior Finance Coordinator
Salary: £37,500 plus Study Assistance
Responsible To: Finance Manager
Hours: 35 Hours per Week
Annual Leave: 25 days per annum
Location: Head Office – London Near Victoria
Job Purpose
To manage the day-to-day accounting and financial tasks, ensuring accurate recording of financial transactions, and providing support in the preparation of financial reports. This includes processing of both purchase and sales invoices and the reconciliation of the books of prime entry. You will assist senior members of the finance team at month end and year end.
Main Duties
1. Go through relevant financial procedures as necessary with new staff.
2. Set up and train new starters on the purchase order system.
3. Review and post all monthly petty cash and prepaid card returns per the management accounts timetable.
4. Maintain the Purchase Ledger making any changes necessary such as name and bank details with the necessary correct documentation.
5. Maintain the Sales Ledger making any changes necessary such as name and bank details with the necessary correct documentation.
6. To clear accounts payable queries daily
7. Answer queries via telephone and e-mail relating to creditors and payment of invoices.
8. Reconcile monthly the balances on the creditor ledger and supplier statements.
9. Prepare BACS run with supporting documentation
10. Document processes used in the Finance function to support the ongoing development of the department and ensure that potential efficiencies are maximised.
11. Support the of Director of Finance with the Business Partnering approach to non finance colleagues.
12. Reconciling the Aged Debt report at month end to the General Ledger ensuring all payments are allocated and providing notes on any outstanding debt and action being taken for recovery.
13. Collecting Payment and managing the credit control function for both Field Lane and Fun.
14. Ensuring all Fee invoices are properly raised accurately for all Client Services
15. Ensure all rent and service charges are billed accurately.
16. To act as a point of reference for guardians when it comes to invoices queries and rent and service charge increases.
17. Produce weekly report showing voids per project and distribute to senior management team.
18. Produce monthly analysis showing the fees received compared with fees expected by client and to raise any adverse variances with the director of finance.
General
· Complying with Field Lane’s policies and procedures at all times.
· Covering and supporting other members of the team as necessary.
· Attending and participating in team meetings and other meetings as required.
· Being proactive in reflecting on own performance and identifying and acting upon areas for improvement and development.
· Undertaking as required any other duties compatible with the level and nature of the post and/or reasonably required by your line manager or other senior colleagues.
Person Specification
We need you to provide a covering letter to give evidence with supporting examples of how you meet the requirements in each point listed below.
Experience
· A formal finance qualification, or evidence of a significant period of study towards one.
· Experience of databases for the purposes of inputting and extracting information, report writing and design
· A proactive attitude
· To have demonstrable experience of working across multiple financial disciplines within a busy finance department
· Liaising with banks & auditors.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
· Willingness to undertake training and continuing professional development.
· Advanced experience of Excel spreadsheets skills including the use of and knowledge of complex formulae set-ups.
· Ability to plan, manage and organise own workload.
· Good interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate with staff at all levels across all departments.
· Team working.
· Computer literate, including Word, Excel, and Microsoft Office.
· Excellent written and numeracy skills.
· Sound analytical skills and the ability to apply those skills to problem solving.
· Adaptable to different situations
· Positive attitude towards disability.
· Commitment to the principles of equal opportunities and diversity
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Finance Officer - Central London base
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week
Location: Temporarily at Church House Westminster, then permanently at 25 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SF
Hybrid Working: Connexional Team staff based at Methodist Church House have a hybrid work pattern which is currently 2 days in the office, and 3 days remote.
The Vacancy
The role involves correctly accounting for all payments and income including legacies given to specific projects and district assessment ensuring that all sums due to the Church have been duly received and where necessary, banked intact and promptly and correctly accounted for.
Your Qualities:
- Good attention to detail and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues
- First class organisational and administrative skills and systematic approach to work
- Ability to deliver to set deadlines
- Able to remain calm under pressure and be tactful in difficult or sensitive situations
- Honesty, integrity, resilience and professionalism
Key duties include:
- Processing supplier invoices ensuring payments are made on time
- Processing donations, raising sales invoices and performing credit control checks
- Posting investment income transactions and administering legacies
- Process gift aid claims and provide support to churches Gift Aid Secretaries
- Raising sales ledger invoices and performing credit control
- Posting cash book journals and preparing bank and control account reconciliations
- Process the pension scheme cashbooks and general ledger journals
- To be the main point of contact to handle customer and supplier queries
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We welcome applications from people living with disabilities.
Closing Date: 26 April 2024
Interview Date: 10 May 2024
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A leading literacy charity is looking for a Finance Assistant to join its small, closeknit team. The charity empowers children, young people and adults from disadvantaged communities with the literacy skills they need to succeed. You will need to work from the office in Vauxhall at least one day per week, but can work from home the remainder of the week. Salary £25,000 - £28,000 per annum.
This is a permanent, full time role (35 hours per week). You will report to the Head of Finance and work closely with the other members in the Finance Team.
The post holder's main duties and responsibilities are:
- Undertake month-end bank reconciliations, monitor balances and make transfers when required
- Process bank transactions including depositing cheques
- Check bank receipts daily, matching to income expected and liaising with other departments as necessary to ensure they're coded correctly
- Take card payments over the phone, and work with the other finance team members to process cheques and cash
- Import sales invoices from our CRM system (Salesforce) into accounting system (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), and carry out reconciliations of income
- Chase outstanding debts and manage aged debtors, including working with the Head of Finance and department leads as necessary
- Process and input staff expenses
- Process and input purchase invoices, ensuring they're authorised and coded correctly
- Liaise with suppliers and be first point of contact for accounts payable queries
- Check and reconcile bank payments daily and liaise with other team members and other departments on managing payments
- Process payments to HMRC, and other ad hoc payments as required
- Prepare Gift Aid claims and submit to HMRC
- Support the audit process as required
Candidates applying for this role must have the following skills and experience;
- Experience carrying out basic financial processes
- Working with finance software packages
- Ability to work independently and problem solve
- Excellent attention to detail
- Experience working in voluntary sector, sales and purchase ledger, or processing Gift Aid claims would be an advantage.
If you have the experience required, please apply with a copy of your CV.
Role closes on 29th April, 2024
My client will be interviewing on 2nd May, 2024
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities with which we work.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you an experienced Finance Officer looking for your next challenge?
Do you want to work for an exciting social change organisation with the mission of enabling people, places and the planet to flourish?
With our new Design for Life strategy, we are embarking on the next chapter in our 270 years’ strong history of social impact, with a range of interventions to unite people and ideas to turn world changing ideas into world changing actions.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Finance Officer to help us achieve real impact by keeping abreast of sources of income and expenditure across the RSA group, and working proactively to ensure that purchases and income are invoiced, recorded correctly and efficiently and cash is received as soon as possible.
This role is based from RSA House in London for at least three days per week, with hybrid flexibility for the remaining days.
About You
What we look for in a successful Finance Officer candidate:
- Good organisational and administrative skills including a high level of attention to detail and accuracy, even under pressure.
- Personable, with great communication skills and the ability to build relationships.
- A professional and proactive outlook with the ability to take responsibility and personal ownership over tasks.
- Experience with purchase/ sales ledger and cash book within a finance department, working with a mid-level accounting package.
To find out more about this role, please download the job description on our website.
Apply
In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.
Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am on 29 May 2024. However, screening and interviews will be ongoing, so we may close the vacancy early if sufficient exceptional candidates apply. Please get your application in as soon as possible.
Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.
Inclusion Statement
As a social change organisation, we believe everyone, regardless of visible or invisible difference, should be welcomed to participate in creating a better future.
We aspire to maximum inclusion in our work and endeavour to challenge systemic inequity and all forms of discrimination. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who is committed to our vision and values and can demonstrate the skills, competencies and experience required for the role applied for.
Read full our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on our website.
About Us
We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Where world-leading ideas are turned into world-changing actions. We’re committed to a world that is resilient, rebalanced and regenerative, where everyone can fulfil their potential.
The RSA has been at the forefront of significant social impact for 270 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and unique global network of changemakers, work collectively to enable people, places and the planet to flourish. We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas in collective action to create opportunities to regenerate our world.
We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more! Read our full list of benefits on our website.
A global network of changemakers enabling people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.