About This Role
An Associate in Finance Operations takes ownership of the day-to-day Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processes within an innovative and growing business. This broad position covers invoicing, purchasing, reconciliations, and cash management, working across multiple products, SKUs, customer, and supplier entities.
Responsibilities
- Raise and issue accurate customer invoices across multiple products, SKUs and entities
- Manage the Accounts Receivable ledger, including cash allocation, reconciliations and credit control
- Process and verify supplier invoices across multiple vendors and cost centres
- Maintain the purchase ledger and ensure invoices and credit notes are correctly matched to purchase orders and goods received
- Prepare and execute payment runs, including multi-currency and multi-entity payments
- Reconcile supplier statements and monitor AP and AR ageing
- Handle customer and supplier queries and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Complete bank and cash reconciliations and support balance sheet reconciliations
- Support month-end and year-end close processes
- Assist with reporting, cash forecasting, stock reconciliations and ad-hoc financial analysis
- Identify opportunities to improve and automate finance processes
Requirements
- 2–6 years' experience in an Accounts Receivable and/or Accounts Payable position, ideally with exposure to both
- Hands-on SAP experience is essential, particularly for invoice processing, payment runs and reconciliations
- Experience raising and managing invoices across multiple products, SKUs or entities
- Strong understanding of purchasing and sales processes
- Experience working with high-volume invoicing and purchasing
- Strong Excel skills and excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable working across multiple entities, currencies or business units
- Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities
Nice to have:
- Experience within retail, wholesale, distribution, e-commerce, FMCG or another multi-site/product-led business
- AAT, ACCA or CIMA studies would be advantageous
Benefits
- Exposure across AP, AR, cash, reconciliations, reporting and wider commercial finance
- Genuine scope to take ownership and develop responsibilities as the business grows
Important Details
- Working pattern: Hybrid, Monday to Thursday in the office
About the Company
This innovative and growing business operates within the supply chain and trade finance space, helping organisations across complex supply chains improve cash flow, reduce risk, and optimise their working capital.
