Finance Manager

at  Green Machine SW

Job Description: Finance Manager
Company/Dept: Green Machine SW Ltd – Finance Team
Reporting to: Company Director
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Highbridge – Office Based
Salary: £32,000 per annum + benefits
Due to our continued success, we have an exciting new opportunity within our finance team.
As well as working with a friendly, dynamic and supportive fun team, you will enjoy seeing your passion and commitment making a real difference, developing and growing our family-owned business still further. You will be joining one of the most successful and progressive businesses in the Southwest who have a focus on the personal development of their staff.
The post of Finance Officer is to deliver all operation aspects of our finance function. The post-holder will be expected to carry out a wide range of financial, organisational, and administrative tasks.

ABOUT YOU:

Are you AAT qualified, perhaps working towards your ACCA (or equivalent) and keen to progress within a diverse and ever evolving business? Do you have previous experience of working within an Accountancy based role and are now looking for your next career move, within a company full of opportunity? If so, we may have just the right role for you.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

· Experience of working in Credit Control / Accounts Receivable
· A polite but tenacious telephone manner along with a calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations.
· Strong skills and knowledge of Microsoft applications, in particular Excel.
· Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels, excellent client care skills.
· Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing skills and eye for detail.

· Managing own workload in line with your key performance indicators
· Use email, letters, and telephone to contact debtors and ensure payment of outstanding invoices to reduce debtor days.
· Keep a record of all communication with the client on the credit control software, this is important when there are payment problems and the account become legal, these records are needed for court proceedings.
· Investigate and resolve all queries relating to non-payment of invoices.
· Send copy invoices, credit notes, and liaise internally to progress any problems that are being handled in any other department.
· Reconcile accounts as requested.
· Report to management on outstanding issues and inform them early of potential debtor’s problems.
· Manage relationships with our customers in order to reduce exposure to potential bad debt.
· Have regular meetings with team and the company directors.