Accounts Receivable Assistant
Full Time 40 Hours Per week Monday to Friday
Purpose of the role:
The role primarily is working alongside another AR Assistant covering all aspects of accounts receivables within the organisation. To include cash reconciliations, raising concession invoices, raising recharge and rebates invoices, ensuring customer accounts are settled in a timely manner, managing the receivables ledger, and keeping bad debt to a minimum.
The role has a strong commercial bias and is more dynamic than a traditional credit control position, focused on a positive customer experience and not just focused on debt collection. Suited to a proactive, solutions driven individual who has a tenacity to resolve situations and strives for a positive outcome and best possible customer experience.
You will report to and work closely with the AR Manager; however we are a large finance team, and you will work alongside all other finance roles within the organisation. Thus, allowing potential development within the organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
● Working closely with our sites, monitoring and processing weekly cash sheets received, and reconciling to all payment types received.
● To manage and process billing including Site Concessions and Utility invoices / Transport Recharges and Ad Hoc invoicing.
● Customer account invoicing and ledger maintenance
● Taking responsibility for your own sales ledger to include timely statement production, cash collection and following up on overdue payments and aged debt reporting
● Dealing with high volumes of calls and emails, with the ability to prioritise effectively.
● Liaise with the Property team and Centre representatives in order to raise monthly concession invoices in a timely manner and deal with issues arising.
● Working closely with the Buying Team to ensure correct monitoring and calculations of rebates
● Raising rebate invoices to suppliers in a timely manner and ensuring direct cash settlement or liaising with AP team to ensure invoice offset
● Providing back up within other areas of the AR Team.
● Assisting the AR Manager when required
Knowledge/Skill/Experience
The position includes a high number of weekly and monthly reconciliations, therefore someone with good mathematical skills would have an advantage, although someone with previous credit control/ledger experience again would be at an advantage.
But we are ideally looking for someone:
● Focused on delivering outstanding customer service to both customers and colleagues.
● The ability to manage difficult conversations and embrace change.
● The ability to communicate clearly and confidently with a range of people.
● Strong organisational or administrative skills with attention to detail and a methodical approach.
● Commercial acumen with the ability to understand the onward impact/consequences.
● IT literate and a comprehensive understanding of Windows based programmes to include Word and Excel and conversant with various business operating systems
● Strong teamwork skills
Behaviours
● Demonstrate a willingness to work positively within a team to achieve goals and excellence in service delivery.
● A positive proactive approach to continuous improvement
● Great communicator
● Analytical and inquisitive by nature. Exceptionally organised, logical and methodical.
● Solutions driven through a pragmatic and energized approach to tasks.
● Persistence and tenacity.
● Demonstrate assertiveness without being aggressive.
To apply:
Please send your CV to: Angie Pepper Accounts Receivable Manager apepper@britishgardencentres.com
Applications close – Thursday 11th September 2025
May we apologies in advance, that in the event of a high volume of applications being received, we will only be able to contact you if your application is successful.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Experience:
- purchase ledger: 1 year (preferred)
- Accounts receivable: 1 year (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person