Sales Ledger Officer

Through continued growth our client is looking for an experienced Sales Ledger Officer to join their small team.

Main aspects of the role are -

To ensure that sales income is accurately and efficiently invoiced, accounted for, collected, reported and to provide collaborative Finance support to the Sales Department.

• Generate sales invoices and transactions in the accounting system that are imported from the traffic system for a range of clients, accurately, on the correct template and to timetable.


• Reconcile sales invoicing across systems and to the control accounts.


• Effectively and with sensitivity, collect debts, working closely with Sales.


• Check and prepare monthly and ad hoc debtor statements.


• Resolve queries from clients and collect debt by phone and email.


• Operate the credit collection process and calculate the bad debt provision to policy.


• Post receipts from bank accounts daily into the debtor’s ledger and update the debtor’s ledger and credit control reports for Sales.


• Import and reconcile Stripe receipts into Income and reconcile bank accounts.


• Reconcile and post transactions daily into bank accounts, accurately and promptly.


• Reconcile daily cashbook and control accounts.


• Calculate and prepare the monthly sales commission calculations for review and approval by the Commercial Director and Finance.


• Review and approve finance approvals in the sale system


• Support other Finance area (such as purchase ledger) as required and for absence cover. This includes transaction posting, reconciliation, analysis and reporting.

Essential Skills

• AAT or other accountancy qualification (accountancy trainee), or qualified by experience.


• A minimum of 3-4 years’ experience of working in a Sales Ledger position or a position that includes sales ledger.

•      Sound understanding of double entry, accounts structure and journals


•      Strong accounting reconciliation skills.


•      Must be organised and able to work under tight deadlines (daily, weekly, monthly).


•      A good communicator able to write good and clear copy.


•      Good Excel and IT skills (a quick learner & user of three software packages).

Training will be provided

Please note our client is a Christian Communications Global organisation

This is a hybrid postion