Sewell Wallis
Sales Ledger Clerk - Credit Control

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About the Role
Sewell Wallis are delighted to be working with a well-established organisation to recruit a Sales Ledger Clerk - Credit Control to join their busy finance team on a 6 month FTC. This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in finance administration, sales ledger or accounts receivable who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in delivering an excellent level of customer service.
Check you match the skill requirements for this role, as well as associated experience, then apply with your CV below.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the credit control function, ensuring customer queries are managed efficiently, payments are allocated accurately and outstanding debt is followed up in a timely manner.
What will you be doing?
- Reporting to the Credit Control Team Leader, you will be responsible for managing the dunning and query management processes, alongside providing wider administrative and financial support to the team.
- Managing the end-to-end weekly process of issuing customer account statements and dunning letters.
- Maintaining accurate records, monitoring responses and following up on outstanding queries and payments.
- Reviewing debt collection activity and identifying where further action is required.
- Managing customer queries via the email management system, ensuring responses are accurate and delivered within agreed SLAs.
- Investigating and allocating customer queries, keeping records updated within the credit control system.
- Handling incoming telephone calls and processing customer payments.
- Reconciling customer accounts and allocating payments against sales invoices.
- Investigating refund requests and liaising with accounts payable to ensure timely resolution.
- Supporting Credit Controllers with overdue debt and more complex finance queries.
- Providing general administrative support and contributing to wider team projects and process improvements.
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Requirements
What skills are we looking for?
We're looking for someone motivated, detail-oriented and confident managing a varied workload within a finance environment.
To Be Considered, You Will Ideally Have
- GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths and English, alongside a minimum of five GCSEs overall.
- Previous experience working with financial transactions or within a finance administration role.
- Experience using finance software and a good understanding of accounts receivable processes.
- Strong data entry skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and the ability to use finance systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, or equivalent.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to communicate with customers and colleagues at all levels.
- The ability to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and work effectively under pressure.
- A proactive approach, with the ability to use your own initiative while contributing positively to a team.
- A willingness to learn, adapt and embrace change.


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Benefits
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary of £27,200
- Competitive pension scheme
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Hybrid, Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support
- Hybrid working - 3 days on site
How to Apply
Send us your CV below, or contact Jemima Vibert for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
About Sewell Wallis
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
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