Cash Allocation Assitant

Job Title

Cash Allocation Assistant

Job Description

This new role is in the offshored team within the Finance Shared Services function of an international engineering & design consultancy company.  The shared services team will be co-located with several hundred fee-earning staff in a professional business environment.   

Key aspects of the role:

• Responsible for the accurate allocation of daily cash receipts, both UK sterling and foreign currency.
• Resolution of any allocation or processing queries
• To match credit notes and process bad debt write offs.
• To work closely with the Cash Collections team and reconcile accounts where necessary.
• The role reports into the Cash Allocation & Customer Address Book Team Leader

This new position is a great opportunity for the right person to make a positive impact on a dynamic business.  

Requirements

Qualifications

• Batchelor’s degree.

Essential Criteria

• Excellent English (spoken and written)
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in Accounts Receivable
• Familiar with processing financial transactions in a recognised accounting package
• Excel intermediate level.  Must be able to complete spreadsheets and maintain data where required
• Outlook intermediate level required in order to communicate with internal and external customers

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in allocating cash to invoices
• Microsoft word (intermediate) to create reports

Responsibilities

• Allocate daily bank cash receipts promptly and accurately.
• Process other payment types such as cheques, credit cards and paypal.
• Resolve any outstanding unallocated cash quickly & efficiently.
• Match credit notes promptly and accurately.
• Deal with any queries bought by Customers, internal and external.
• Manage customer queues and correspondence in a timely manner.
• Investigate mis allocation issues and resolve within tight deadlines.
• Prioritise workload to ensure core activities are always achieved.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with all areas of the SSF, Atkins business and external customers

The Individual

• Ability to work well under pressure and prioritise workload. Excellent organisational skills to be able to multi task.
• Be task focused and have excellent attention to detail to ensure all tasks are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
• Team player – must work well in a small team to support all team members and ensure that all workload is completed.

Training

Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. 

These are reviewed with individuals through an annual appraisal process.  We actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.