- Company Name
- IFRS Foundation
- Job Title
- Accounts Receivable Assistant
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Accounts Receivable Assistant
**Role Summary**
Provide end‑to‑end support for the accounts receivable process, ensuring accurate invoicing, timely payment collection, and precise financial entries. Act as a liaison with legal, translation, adoption, copyright, IT, and customer service teams to resolve invoice and payment issues and maintain accurate records in Salesforce and Business Central.
**Expectations**
- Deliver invoices and credit notes on schedule and in line with contractual terms.
- Maintain high accuracy in calculations, entries, and reconciliations across multiple currencies.
- Manage the revenue email inbox, respond to queries promptly, and keep stakeholders informed.
- Support the finance team with reporting, budgeting, audits, and ad‑hoc tasks.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Issue royalty invoices, annual fees, fixed payments, and advance opportunity invoices in Salesforce.
- Issue credit notes and integrate invoices into Business Central, deferring revenue correctly.
- Monitor UK payments, manage the revenue email inbox, and coordinate credit control with Legal and other teams.
- Send and reconcile monthly customer statements.
- Prepare monthly aged debtors reports and other reporting for management meetings.
- Run daily payment platform reports, ensure integration between Webshop and Business Central, resolve failed invoices with IT.
- Post cash receipt journals for Webshop sales; perform bank reconciliations, maintain refund register, reconcile customer accounts, stock, and deferral reports.
- Conduct year‑end stock counts.
- Continuously update and optimise Salesforce contracts data and processes.
- Support revenue reporting, annual budget preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, internal and external audits.
- Provide ad‑hoc support to the revenue and wider finance team; act as backup to the revenue team.
**Required Skills**
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Strong initiative, proactive and responsible.
- Process‑focused, methodical, high attention to detail.
- Highly organised, capable of multitasking and prioritising workloads.
- Collaborative team‑player with eagerness to learn and accept constructive feedback.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Pursuing a recognised accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA) – optional.
- Proven experience with accounts receivable and/or accounts payable.
- Experience handling multiple currencies.
- Proficient in Excel.
**Preferred**
- Experience in an international environment.
- Familiarity with Business Central and Salesforce.