Finance Administrator - Margin Support

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Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Finance Administrator and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role:

As our Finance Administrator for the Margin Support team, you’ll work closely with colleagues and suppliers to identify, track, report and resolve the root-cause issues relating to supplier non-compliance for the contract claim recovery process, whilst reducing missed opportunity.  At City Plumbing, we have a long history of providing our Finance Administrators with funding and incentives to complete their Finance qualifications, with countless examples of Finance Administrators progressing into more Senior roles within our Finance team.

This could be YOU!

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a set of suppliers to ensure full recovery of debt is cleared within SLA deadlines.
• Updating a tracker to ensure status is up-to-date and responsibility for actions are clearly logged.
• Investigating Supplier queries and discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Reconciling supplier accounts using our debt provisioning and liaising with suppliers regularly via meetings.
• Working with business partners to ensure that information is available for an efficient disputed claim resolution.
• Recovery of Debt relating to Contract Support.
• Liaising with purchase ledger to check funds available on supplier accounts prior to raising internal debit note deductions - supporting company cash flow.
• Supporting  colleagues and escalating any outstanding issues to ensure an acceptable outcome.
• Suggesting  system and process improvements that adapt to meet business needs.
• Input data into the primary books of account and perform account reconciliations as required.
• Responsible for Month End Process and reconciliations.

This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire

You:

You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving.  You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent support to the wider team.

Skills and competencies

• Confident with Excel or Google sheets and analysing data. 
• Team player with a “can do, will do” attitude.
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Organised with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• The ability to multitask, prioritise and work under pressure.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Accounts Assistant, Finance Administrator, Finance Graduate, Finance Assistant, Finance Executive, Payroll Assistant, Cash & Banking Assistant, Margin Support Assistant, AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ACA.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

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We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.