Wex Photo Video is the UK's leading specialist omni-channel retailer of photographic and video equipment and services, with a customer base ranging from photography enthusiasts to professionals and business users. Through its web site and retail location (www.wexphotographic.com), Wex delivers its customers a market-leading product offering, extending to some 20,000 products, providing the photo and video enthusiast with a comprehensive choice across all product categories. The business has been successful in achieving year-on-year growth over successive years through the maintaining excellent customer service and by continuously looking for new and innovative services for people involved in all areas of photography. It has longstanding relationships with all the leading photo equipment suppliers, including Canon, Sony, Fuji, Nikon, Profoto, Panasonic, Sigma and many more.

Working within the finance team, this role is ideal for a candidate looking to start and build a career in finance and accounting. The role requires building an understanding of key functions performed by a busy finance department. This includes activities to support the management accounts team and also working with accounts payable (purchase ledger) and accounts receivable (credit control). This requires an enthusiastic person with a strong desire to develop their own professional knowledge, and who possesses the ability to build good working relationships with people both within the business and with external customers.

Responsibilities of the role include:

Management accounts activities:

Performing reconciliations of balance sheet accounts;Reconciling payments received in the bank to amounts recorded in the sales order system;Preparing supporting schedules and information to support balances for the management accounts and auditors;Maintaining a fixed asset register; andPreparing and distributing reports for managers, such as a daily sales report.

Accounts payable activities:

Processing invoices on the purchase ledger;Allocating Direct Debit and ad hoc payments against invoices on purchase ledger accounts;Investigating and resolving pricing and quantity queries with purchase invoices; andReconciling purchase ledger accounts with supplier statements.

Accounts receivable activities:

Communicating with customers to ensure that issues are identified and invoices are paid as they fall due;Working with the B2B sales team to resolve issues promptly;Keeping a record of debt collection activity;Allocating receipts to invoices on customer accounts on the ledger;Sorting and circulating invoices and statements to customers;Producing reports to show the status of the aged debt; andCreating and maintaining a record of manual invoices.

Other activities:

Sharing responsibility with other members of the team for sorting and distributing the post on a daily basis.

Essential Competencies:

Ability to develop and maintain good professional relationships within the business and with customers;Good standard of written and spoken English;Ability and desire to develop better understanding of systems like Excel;Ability to work in a team; andMethodical and accurate approach to work.

Skills and experience:

Ability to use Microsoft Excel and Word; andExcellent organisational and communication skills.

Contract

Full-time

Location

Frensham Rd, Norwich, NR2 3BT