Credit Controller

Sales Ledger / Credit Controller

Salary range £22k - £24k

As a Sales Ledger / Credit Controller at BRG you will be working in the finance team reporting into the group finance manager. The role is based at our Birmingham office on Colmore Row.


Boparan Restaurant Group is a collection of iconic restaurant brands, spanning Fine Dining, Casual Dining and QSR. We’re a collection of restaurant brands that each carry their own personality but share a passion for creating contemporary food and drink experiences that make people happy. Our objective is to further strengthen and grow the positions of all our brands nationally and internationally. Our brand portfolio includes: GBK, Giraffe, Eds Easy Diner, Slim Chickens, Fishworks, Cinnamon Collection and Carluccios.


Job Purpose:

To ensure the very highest standards of control and timeliness in allocating, managing and reconciling our multiple group bank accounts and sales ledger. Invoicing and cash collection.

 

Also key to this role are efficiency improvements, as we strive to provide best in class financial control in terms of efficiency, accuracy value-add and speed.


Responsibilities:


•     Allocate cash received, identifying the source funds and ensuring all sums received are posted to the correct accounts with 24 hours of receipt, initiating queries on unidentifiable items as appropriate. Raise invoices to our national and international franchisee partners, sub-tenants and inter-company related parties

 

•     Timely resolution to invoice queries in order to prevent payment delays

 

•     Perform regular Weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts ensuring that unidentified items are investigated and resolved and that the reconciliations are formally signed off by the appropriate authoriser in accordance with agreed process. Allocate payments received against invoices in Navision on a timely basis

 

•     Follow up overdue payments with the relevant customers using credit control procedures and escalate internally to the Finance and Commercial teams. Ensure all bank reconciliations, including commentary on the investigation and resolution of reconciling items is available for formal sign off on at least a monthly basis

 

•      Maintain daily records of all cash received and ensure the wider Finance and Commercial team members are aware of cash received as appropriate

 

•      Update the cash flow forecast with actual bank transactions daily and assist in the improvement of cash flow forecasting

 

•      Ensure that all cash received is posted to Navision on a timely basis

 

•      Ensure robust governance, audit trail and visibility in is place at all times covering all bank transactions

 

•      Own the sales ledger process, raising invoices as appropriate and escalating any overdue amounts to the relevant members of the Finance and Commercial teams

 

•     To target efficiency improvements in all processes such that ever-increasing time can be devoted to value added finance work. Set up new customers in Navision ensuring financial control and governance are in place.

 

•     Build relationships with our customer’s Accounts Payable teams to support timely payments and query resolution

 

•     Weekly and monthly reporting as required regarding cash, sales ledger and other areas of finance as required. Payments received, aged debt and overdue invoices

 

To provide holiday cover for the Cash Accountants and to assist where appropriate within other accounting tasks and respond to reasonable requests concerning financial matters.  This will involve multi-skilling to support other members of the finance team.


Measures For Success:

·         Timely and accurate period end reporting and reconciliation of invoices raised

·         Excellent control of Bank accounts, with all transactions posted promptly

·         Consistently accurate weekly and monthly reporting

·         Assistance provided to other members of the team

·         No issues raised by either Internal or External audit


Knowledge, Skills and Experience:


·  Minimum of 2 years sales ledger and credit control experience essential

·  Part qualified accountant (ACMA/ACCA/ACA) with minimum 1.5 years relevant experience.

 ·  Experience of managing cash and bank reconciliation processes for multiple companies across multiple bank accounts.

•   Proficient in Microsoft Excel, with VBA/ Macro skills. Microsoft Navision experience is ideal.

•    Experience in ERP software, particularly Navision

•     Multi-site Retail or hospitality experience is a preference.

•     Good organisational and time management skills with the ability to switch between a commercially diverse range of entities and manage multiple deliverables.

     Good interpersonal skills and a team player. 


What’s in it for you? 

• A competitive salary

• A chance to build a career in an exciting industry where no two days are ever the same

• Generous Discount on Food at Giraffe, Ed’s Easy Diner, Slim Chickens, Fishworks, Cinnamon Collection, GBK and Carluccios

• Exclusive access to discounts on 1000's of online and high-street retailers, and restaurants

• Training and development opportunities

• Apprenticeship Scheme

 

If this sounds like you then we’d like to hear from you! 


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