Credit Control Finance Assistant

Are you a bilingual German and English speaker with experience in a finance, accounts or customer service role?

Do you have excellent communication skills and experience in working with stakeholders?

Are you keen to work in a fast-paced finance function and ready for the challenge of working in a global firm?

Due to our client’s continued growth, they have a Finance Assistant position available within their Credit Control team. We would like to speak with finance professionals who have excellent customer service skills and a proven ability at building rapport with various stakeholders. This is the perfect company for you if you value a working environment where you will be encouraged to pursue your professional and personal development.

What’s on offer?

• Permanent, full-time position in an ambitious team.
• Attractive working hours, Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working: 3 days in the office and 2 days WFH weekly
• Competitive starting salary, circa £20-£25K
• Progress your career in Finance within a global professional services team.
• Utilise your language skills on a daily basis.

What will you be responsible for?

• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders and key clients to encourage timely recovery of payments.
• Working within the team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of work
• Accurately preparing invoices and statements and sending on time to customers.
• Follow-up on past due accounts in order to recover payment.
• Dealing with customer queries in a professional and efficient manner, resolving issues in relation to invoice payments.
• Ensuring that customer records are kept up to date and that data is accurate.
• Posting and allocating payments received.
• Assist with reconciliations, month-end processes and financial reports.
• Data entry onto the finance system, generating reports and delivering detailed financial information.
• Providing general support and advice within the functional area of responsibility.
• Appropriate electronic filing of all documentation.
• Contribute to the overall success of the team, promoting and maintaining a positive work environment and ‘can-do’ attitude.

Who are we looking for?

• Active team member engages with others and is a great team-player.
• Supports co-workers to foster effective relationships, shares knowledge or skills and can provide and accept feedback.
• Excellent communicator with an enthusiastic, pro-active, and flexible approach
• Professional, self-motivated, and organized – can work to delivery tasks efficiently with limited supervision.
• Ability to work well under pressure and multi-task to meet targets and tight deadlines.
• Ability to complete tasks to a high standard with a keen eye for accuracy.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 1 years’ experience in a busy office or finance function.
• Previous experience in customer service and establishing effective relationships is an advantage
• Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
• Computer literate with experience in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and Outlook
• Experience of working within shared services environment (Desirable)
• Confident communicator with excellent oral and written skills
• Advanced or fluent, German / English bilingual (Desirable)

If you think that you could excel in this role and become a valued member of this team then we want to speak with you! Please get in contact to discuss this opportunity or apply online today.

Next Steps:
Please submit your application or speak to a specialist consultant from the Abacus team on 0044 (0) 28 9031 3157 for a confidential discussion. We aim to respond to all inquiries within 4 business hours.
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