Billings & Invoicing Assistant
Hours: 22.5 hours week - our client is flexible with working hours, so can work 3, 4 or 5 days per week
Location: Burnley
Hybrid-working once training complete – minimum 1 day per week in the office
Salary: £16,800 actual salary / £14.35 per hour (£28,000 FTE)
Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract for 1 year
Benefits: Free Car Parking, Exceptional holidays starting at 28 days plus BH so 36 days pro rata if not working 5 days.
Role purpose: Generic billings administrator focused on billing, credit control, high volume invoicing, and month end activities.
Key accountabilities / responsibilities
- Collating and creation of monthly customer billing cycle (as small number of customer to bill regularly) and first line support for customers with billing queries
- Support billings with subscription queries (usually generated by the operations team which are inconsistent with billing rules)
- Provide credit control cover from time to time (outbound calls, processing card payments etc)
- Supporting month end work – Balance Sheet reconciliations and supporting journals
- Provide adhoc support to Finance Manager and Senior Manager (ad hoc requests may come in from Group to provide data from the system, forecasts, etc)
- Ad hoc projects (process efficiencies)
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience
- Past experience working within a billings team
- Basic understanding of a transactional finance team
- Excel competence including VLOOKUP & pivot tables
- Working to tight/strict deadlines
- Team player – flexibility to cover other roles within a busy and small finance team
- Prioritising skills
- Good communication skills: both written and verbal
- The ability to challenge and interrogate to ensure accuracy
- Knowledge of Navision is advantageous