SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
Accounts Receivable Specialist (m/f/d)
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Accounts Receivable Specialist (m/f/d)
IN SHORT
The role is responsible for managing cash application and customer finance operations, ensuring accurate and timely posting of customer payments, processing refunds, and managing direct debit collections. The role also involves investigating and resolving complex payment queries, supporting reporting and reconciliations, and maintaining the integrity of receivables processes while delivering excellent service to internal and external stakeholders.
What Will You Do
- Billing & Invoicing: Prepare, review, and issue customer invoices and credit notes accurately and on schedule, ensuring correct coding, tax treatment, and compliance with contractual terms.
- Cash Allocation: Post and reconcile incoming customer payments across multiple markets and currencies, ensuring timely and accurate allocation against customer accounts and invoices.
- Collections & Dispute Management: Manage overdue receivables, proactively follow up on outstanding balances, and resolve disputes or payment discrepancies in collaboration with customers and internal teams.
- Refunds & Adjustments: Review and process customer refund requests and account adjustments in line with policy and control requirements, ensuring all necessary approvals and documentation are obtained.
- Period-End Closing: Perform AR-related month-end closing activities, including reconciliations, journal entries, reporting on aged receivables, and supporting audit requirements.
- Controls & Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal controls, accounting policies, and external regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate and audit-ready documentation.
- Systems & Tools: Maintain and enhance AR system functionality, identifying process improvements, supporting system upgrades, and ensuring data integrity.
- Process Improvement: Contribute to initiatives focused on standardization, automation, and efficiency improvements within the AR process, supporting best practice adoption.
- Training & Support: Share knowledge and provide training or guidance to new or existing team members, fostering continuous learning and consistent process execution.
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What Will You Bring
- Prior experience in accounts receivable, cash application, or finance operations roles
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in high-volume transactional environments
- Familiarity with direct debit processes and customer refunds
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work collaboratively across functions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP)
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
- High motivation as proactive individual and team player.
- Diligent and dependable, approaching work with an attention to detail.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Problem-solving and process improvement mindset
About Us
Securing Energy for Europe – it’s a simple statement, with a bold ambition. SEFE is not just our name, but also encompasses everything that drives us. To accomplish this, we’re taking immediate action to secure gas supply – but also looking forward, to explore our role in the European energy transformation and how we can contribute to a stable and sustainable future.
SEFE, an international energy company, ensures the security of supply and drives the decarbonisation of its customers. SEFE’s activities span the energy value chain, from origination and trading to sales, transport, and storage. Through its decades-long expertise in trading and the development of its LNG business, SEFE has become one of the most important suppliers to industrial customers in Europe, with an annual sales volume of 200 TWh of gas and power. Its 50,000 customers range from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies and especially in the hydrogen ecosystem, SEFE is contributing to the energy transition. The company employs around 2,000 people globally and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.
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Our international teams work across locations in Europe, Asia, and North America. We’re passionate about energy and the important role it can play in shaping a better future.
Securing energy – now and for the future.
Our Benefits
We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution.
In return we offer a competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive range of financial, lifestyle and wellness benefits with the flexibility to follow a hybrid working model.
- bonus earning potential.
- non-contributory pension with 10% employer contribution.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and volunteering days.
- buy / sell holidays.
- life assurance.
- medical and dental insurance (family cover).
- range of optional flexible benefits.
We are committed to supporting your career growth with opportunities to develop both your knowledge and experience through a blended approach to learning.
Join SEFE and help us secure energy supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.
Information at a Glance
- Job Title: Accounts Receivable Specialist (m/f/d)
- Job Country: United Kingdom
- Job Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Posting Start Date: 11/08/2026
- Business Function: Audit, Accounting & Finance
- Contract Type: Permanent
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