Accounts Administrator

Grafton Banks Finance are working with a well-established commercial company with offices in Eastbourne, East Sussex to recruit an Administrative Accounts Assistant on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting into the Accounts Receivable Team lead and working in a friendly Accounts and Administration team, the main purpose of this job offering is to focus on the accurate posting of payments to customer accounts and other general administration duties.

Duties and Responsibilities will involve:

• Assisting & supporting the regional Administrations to accurately reflect the debt position of our customers.
• This role is integral to the Credit Control team with daily duties and will also involve working with colleagues to ensure payments are posted accurately, allocated correctly and any unidentified payments received are accurately appropriated.Ensuring all correspondence is sent out on due date.
• Receipting & banking of cheques using the online banking portal
• Taking card payments from customers over the phone
• Maintaining customer accounts
• Supporting both Regional Administrators & the AR Team Lead with monthly Credit Chase Cycle
• Ensuring payments are recorded accurately.
• Preparing record of departmental KPIs
• Responding effectively to email queries from both internal & external customers.

This job opportunity sits within the busy and evolving Finance Team situated at the Head Office which supports a business network across the UK. With growth in recent years this is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to join a busy and fulfilling finance and admin role.

The successful candidate will have the following experience:

• Strong organisational skills with the confidence to effectively plan and prioritise your workload.
• Confident working on your own initiative
• Clear attention to detail and 'right first time' approach
• Willingness to use initiative to resolve issues and seek solutions.
• Confident self-motivator with ability to manage own time effectively, work under pressure and to deadlines, with excellent prioritisation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Desire for continual improvement, embracing technology and driving efficient ways of working.
• Ability to work within a team environment as well as being proactively independent.
• Strong MS Excel skills required.

For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent benefits package. This job is working full time in office Monday - Friday.