Sales Ledger & Billing Officer

at  Polaris

ABOUT US

We are Polaris, one of the UK’s largest leading communities of children’s service providers.
Within the community, we have independent fostering and adoption agencies who have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years, as well as Leaving Care services, Residential, Education and bespoke children’s services contracts. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We’re ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff and believe in their futures.
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Sales Ledger and Billing Officer who will play a key role within our established finance team at our Head Office in Bromsgrove.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the Group achieves cash collection targets and minimises debts of concern. This will be achieved by the of robust management of the sales ledger and billing function on a set area of the sales ledger, as well as providing support to the Credit Control Manager.

REQUIREMENTS

The ideal candidate must have the following skills and experience:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to network at all levels
• Proven proficiency using Microsoft Word packages
• The ability to meet strict deadlines on time, every time
• Experience within a similar role and chasing Local Authorities for payments
• Experience of using Access or similar integrated system

If you’re interested in this role, please apply and we’ll be in touch.
The successful candidate will be required to complete a standard DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris
Polaris is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
Polaris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment

• Raising sales invoices in line with customer invoicing terms to pre agreed systemised billing set up
• Raising free text invoices for one off re-chargeable costs
• Chase local authority accounts for payment of invoices and deal with queries
• Allocate cash received against ledger
• Manage queries with regions and customers. To work closely with Polaris region/home when invoicing customers and have proactive query resolution skills.
• Reduce current debtor days on ledger to agreed target, per customer, per region
• To be effectively and efficiently organised and maintain concise communication records.
• To ensure that we are invoicing for all services delivered on region / home managed.