Accounts Assistant

Credit Control & Accounts Receivable

• Manage the end-to-end collections process across UK and international clients.
• Proactively follow up overdue balances by phone and email.
• Maintain accurate aged debtor reports and escalate potential risk accounts.
• Reconcile customer accounts and investigate payment discrepancies.
• Set up and monitor payment plans where required.
• Support accurate cash-flow visibility through up-to-date receivables tracking.
• Take a proactive approach to minimising bad debt.
• Apply statutory late payment interest and recovery costs where appropriate.
• Liaise with external debt recovery partners on escalated accounts.

Accounts Payable & Banking

• Process supplier invoices and expense claims, ensuring correct coding, VAT treatment and approval.
• Prepare supplier payment runs and reconcile supplier statements.
• Deal with supplier queries promptly and professionally.
• Post and allocate customer receipts and supplier payments within the accounting system.
• Complete regular bank reconciliations across sterling and foreign currency accounts.
• Investigate and clear unreconciled items promptly.

Finance & Process Improvement

• Support strong financial controls across billing, revenue and receivables.
• Prepare schedules and information for external audits.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date finance process documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency and accuracy.
• Work closely with the wider finance team across accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and FP&A.

As your experience develops, you'll gain structured exposure to areas including:

• Month-end close processes, including accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
• Revenue and variance analysis.
• Cash-flow analysis.
• Budgeting and forecasting.
• Wider management accounting activities.

You'll receive training and mentoring from the finance team, with a defined development pathway towards a Junior Management Accountant position.

About You

You're organised, proactive and detail-focused, with a genuine interest in developing your accounting career.

You may currently be working in billing, accounts receivable, credit control, purchase ledger or a similar finance role, and are looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience across the finance function.

You'll ideally have:

• Experience in billing, accounts receivable and/or credit control.
• Experience with international invoicing and multi-currency transactions.
• A good understanding of UK VAT, including the treatment of cross-border services.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups and reconciliation work.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to work accurately to tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and confidence dealing with customers and resolving payment queries.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• A proactive and analytical approach to problem-solving.
• The ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a wider team.
• A genuine interest in progressing towards a management accounting career.
• The right to work in the UK.

It would also be an advantage if you have:

• Experience using Xero or another accounting/ERP system.
• Working knowledge of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT.
• Experience with purchase ledger processing and bank reconciliations.
• Exposure to month-end close or management accounting.
• Experience within recruitment, professional services, a multi-entity organisation or an international group.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to join a growing international finance team where your development is part of the role.

You'll gain broad hands-on experience across the finance function while progressively developing the skills needed to move into management accounting.

In return, you'll have:

• A salary of up to £32,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Hybrid and flexible working from our Redhill office, including full-time or part-time.
• Structured training and ongoing mentoring.
• Private healthcare following successful completion of probation.
• Workplace pension and holiday allowance in line with company policy.
• Company sick pay – 10 days during your first 12 months, increasing to 15 days thereafter.
• Your birthday off to celebrate however you choose.
• Paid time off between Christmas and New Year, subject to business needs and manager approval.
• Work From Anywhere for up to 30 days each year.
• A defined development pathway towards Junior Management Accountant.
• The opportunity to develop within a growing international recruitment group.
• The potential for the position to become permanent following maternity cover.

If you're currently working in billing, credit control, accounts receivable or another transactional finance role and are looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience and build towards management accounting, we'd love to hear from you.