The Handle group was founded in 1978 and our heritage, passion, and specialisms are rooted within the media and entertainment industries. Handle Freelance Solutions was established in 2014 and has become the preferred outsourced payroll and compliance solution for an impressive base of Media, Entertainment and Fashion brands.
Working in a small team of 3, you will be accountable for the administration to support credit control. Additionally, you will manage the credit control process for a small ledger of clients.
A great opportunity for someone starting their career in Accounting and finance
Key responsibilities
* Raising invoices
* Liaising with clients to obtain PO numbers to submit invoices.
* Ensuring the timely receipt of invoices by the customers and or uploading customer's invoices on various procurement portals
* Posting Sales Ledger receipts onto the cashbook and Sage
* Recording sales invoices for contract and permanent placements on relevant spreadsheets used for reconciliation, commission, tracking GP and monitoring performance.
* Responsible for company banking
* Preparing remittance slips to be posted with payments.
* Managing a small ledger for credit control
* Collecting outstanding invoices by telephone and email
* Maximising collections by achieving cash target, Minimising aged debt, bad debt and DSO
* Building positive relationships with Client accounts payable functions.
* Negotiating Payment Plans where needed
* Working closely with the sales team to resolve problem accounts.
Experience / Skills Required
1 years’ experience in a similar role
Sales Ledger / Billing Credit experience desired
Good Excel skills – Intermediate – comfortable with V-look-up function
Excellent telephone manner and communications skills
Have strong attention to detail, high accuracy, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Happy working at a very fast pace, dealing with a high-volume workload.
You must be, a natural problem-solver with great attention to detail. The role requires you to be able to multi-task and work calmly under pressure.
In return we offer you the opportunity to grow within stimulating work environment and provide a strong and supportive team culture and a healthy work: play balance.