Assistant Accountant - Accounts Receivable - 6-9 months

The Accounts Receivable specialist will be responsible for managing the company’s accounts receivable function and ensuring the accurate and timely reconciliation of bank statements.

The ideal candidate will deal with customer queries and balance sheet reconciliations along with other ad-hoc duties including month end responsibilities.

Accounts Receivable

• Prepare and send invoices to customers.
• Monitor Aged Debtors reports weekly and follow up on overdue invoices.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Generate Aged Debtors reports weekly to track outstanding invoices.
• Manage the Levies inbox and respond to queries.
• Complete balance sheet recs and Income journals for Month-end.

Bank Reconciliation

• Process and manage the cashbook daily to ensure accuracy of the bank accounts.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between the bank statements and the system.
• Month-end bank reconciliation of FRC bank accounts and credit cards.

General and System Support

• Provide system support for WebExpenses and One Advanced.
• Ad-hoc management information reports as required by the Finance Team.
• Assist with month-end and year-end tasks.
• General office duties and Accounts Payable cover.
• Proficiency in accounting systems and Microsoft Office (especially excel).
• Experience in accounts receivable and bank reconciliation.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and practices.
• Knowledge of Accruals and Prepayments
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to use your own initiative to organise and prioritise workloads and ability to work to strict deadlines with accuracy and efficiency.
• Knowledge of Managing Public Money principles.
• Supporting the Revenue Manager and Financial Controller.
• Liaising internally and externally with stakeholders on all financial issues.
• Ability to work independently and being hands on for all aspects of finance.
• Self-starter, able to organise and plan own work to meet deadlines
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ensure finance processes are in line with FRC public body requirements.

Please apply by following the link our website https://www.frc.org.uk/frc-for-you/careers and uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillset.

• How you meet the required skillset
• confirm that you have the right to work in the UK, and
• tell us where you heard about this job

Rewards and benefits

• The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.
• Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
• Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
• The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
• The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices.

The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.