Senior Receivables Officer

at  Islamic Relief Worldwide

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If you are talented, reliable, service-minded, resilient and a highly motivated professional looking for a meaningful career, with a strong commitment to IRW’s mission and values of sincerity, excellence, compassion, social justice and custodianship, please apply by completing our online application form.
For more information on the excellent company benefits we offer our employees, please visit:
https://www.islamic-relief.org/work-with-us/what-we-offer/
PLEASE NOTE: Interviews are expected to take place early to mid-February 2025.
Pre-employment Checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• screening clearance
• proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
• receipt of satisfactory references

Please note, for UK-based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

• To manage the receivables team which comprises of IRW, IRUK & IWF
• Produce Timely Bank Reconciliations, Income upload via various platforms & Rental Invoicing to aid the Management Accountant to make informed decisions
• To lead the designing & developing of templates & working files for the income upload for the income to be recognised in an efficient manner to facilitate the production of management reports.
• Designed and recommended automated reports using UNIT 4 & Excelerator reports.
• To produce the regular financial information for Head of Accounts to include (Debtors Reports)
• To assist during the annual statutory audit and other audits
• To assist finance colleagues in providing adhoc financial information.
• To assist in the production of ad hoc reports as and when required by senior management to enable informed financial and business decision making
• To support the department and its wider stakeholders on adhoc financial tasks
• To conduct monthly one to ones with all the receivable officers to ensure monthly objectives are met and where appropriate to mentor and develop the receivables officers.
• To ensure all procedures are implemented & documented and where appropriate a SOP (standard operating practice) is developed for efficiency.
• To complete yearly and 6 monthly appraisals for the receivables team
• Being first point of call for all internal & external complaints, making sure all issues are resolved in a timely and satisfactory manner
• To work closely with the IRW/IRUK payables department, the Treasury department and the International Finance department to make sure all payments are submitted accurately and on a timely basis.
• To assist and be the first point of call for all audit questions and queries, to make sure all information required is filed and saved for ease of access.
• Liaise regularly with the fundraising teams to ensure that fundraising income is accurately captured and allocated
• Training – Responsible for training new staff for the Receivables role.
• Responsible for training new staff in Finance department and across all the other departments on Amanah & all income platforms.
• Cash count – being responsible & accountable for all cash handling including cash returns by colleagues & weekly cash count of the safe in multiple currencies.
• Overseeing junior officers on cash counts and developing procedures to make cash count more efficient