ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGER

Ability Matters Group - Abingdon

Full time (39 hours per week)

Ability Matters is a leading provider of private prosthetic healthcare and mobility products in the UK and Ireland. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, we work continuously to deliver the highest standard of care possible and ensure the needs of our customers and patients are met. With headquarters in Oxfordshire, the Group employs over 800 staff across the UK and Europe.

We take pride in providing patients with an industry leading service to enhance their ability so we are looking for positive and dynamic people to join us and deliver on this commitment.

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Accounts Receivable Manager to join our team at Head Office in Abingdon (Oxfordshire).

The successful candidate will have leadership of Accounts Receivable Processing function. This involves ensuring the financial requirements of the business are completed in a timely and accurate manner, whilst maintaining effective financial controls and legal compliance.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Deliver automation / efficiency projects to optimise scaling of resources as the business continues to grow.

• Represent the Company in the integration of new acquisitions into the AMG accounts receivable processing infrastructure - training, liaison with new staff, integration synergies

• Management of collections function to optimise cash receipts.

• Manage the team overseeing customer relationships and liaising with customers where necessary

• Liaison with other finance managers to ensure cash flow requirements are understood and accommodated

• Ensuring all customer reconciliations are completed as necessary

• Work with colleagues throughout the business to ensure customer issues are understood and resolved

• Management of AR team to ensure

o Investigation of any sales/purchase order issues

o Daily cash processing in line with money received daily

o Assisting with the maintenance of customer details

o Any ad hoc requirement as requested by Finance Director

Skills & Personal Attributes

The position requires the job holder to possess:-

• Ideally an accountancy qualification e.g. ACA / CIMA

• Essential experience working in Customer Control

• Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships internally and externally.

• Ability to prioritise workload and work in an organised fashion

• Diplomatic but also assertive as required.

• Attitude of continuous improvement.

• Positive and proactive 'can-do' attitude.

• Excellent spreadsheet skills

• Able to work both alone and within a team

• Able to work to strict deadlines

• A knowledge of Navision

• A knowledge of VAT

• Attention to detail.

• Experience of and comfortable working in a fast paced, flexible organisation.

• Ability to build and develop effective relationships with stakeholders and multi-disciplinary business management teams who operate in a dispersed geographical environment.

• Confidential and professional.

• Self-motivated and uses initiative.

• Flexible working style.

• Good working knowledge of IT systems.

• Highly literate & numerate.

If you would like to apply for this role, please apply with a copy of your CV and a cover letter to by 30th September 2020.