The Growth Company s (GC) Corporate Services team have an exciting new opportunity for a Finance Assistance to work flexibly with the requirements of the business in carrying out transaction processing activities across accounts payable, cash & bank and debt collection for credit control whilst ensuring the integrity and completeness of data that is input to manual and computerised systems.

The Growth Company is an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. We deliver a range of services, working with customers and stakeholders to achieve our vision of a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind.

This is a fixed term role until June 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

• To collect debts within assigned credit terms and achievement of individual & department targets, while keeping of meticulous records and review dates.
• To identify and escalate any potential debt risk or problems/issues with service levels to both internal and external customers, directly to the team leader and/or other appropriate sources.
• To negotiate with customers for satisfactory outcome of the outstanding debt by means of a payment plan, via email, letter, and telephone calls.
• To ensure invoices are recorded promptly, accurately and on the correct purchase ledger account.
• To pro-actively manage and resolve queries with internal and external customers to ensure invoices are paid within agreed payment terms.
• To actively promote and ensure the Corporate P2P process is understood and strictly adhered to by all stakeholders.
• To implement and follow through any changes to processes and transactions to agreed standards and times scales.
• To adopt a flexible approach to job content with a view to developing own skills and knowledge to undertake a range of task requirements within the team.
• To upload bank statements daily into Unit 4, processing receipt and payment related transactions promptly and accurately onto the correct ledger account and allocating against the relevant invoices, where appropriate.
• To manage the receipt and banking of cash and cheques into the department and associated transactions.

About you:

• Organised, flexible, strong personal communicator, good team player.
• Accuracy, knowledge of excel spreadsheets and Unit 4, ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Skills Required:

• Accounting principles, working with a computerised accounting package.
• Will have worked in a busy accounts department with responsibility for processing accounts payable/receivable, credit control chasing alongside experience of financial banking and payment software including Bankline and PTX Bottomline.
• A solid foundation of practical experience working within a financial environment, with in depth knowledge of accounts payable/receivable.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

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All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy