Job Introduction
Role: Accounts Receivable Officer
Location: Hybrid working with a minimum 2 days per week in the Thame office
Salary: £31,519.46 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Contract: 3-6 month Fixed Term Contract
About the Role
Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about delivering accurate work?
We’re looking for a proactive and detail-focused Accounts Receivable Assistant to join the Finance team at Affinity Trust.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring invoices, payments, and customer accounts are processed accurately and efficiently, while building positive working relationships with Local Authorities and private clients.
What will you do?
- Preparing and issuing accurate invoices on a weekly and monthly basis
- Producing ad hoc invoices, recharges, and credit notes as required
- Allocating incoming payments and maintaining accurate financial records
- Managing customer statements and supporting effective aged debt recovery
- Investigating and resolving invoice and payment queries promptly and professionally
- Collaborating closely with Operations teams to ensure timely and accurate billing information
- Liaising with Local Authorities to resolve payment discrepancies and support prompt payment processing
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts and proactively identifying and resolving issues
What will we do?
- We offer hybrid working (min. 2 days a week in Thame)
- 31 days’ annual leave (inc. bank holidays), rising with service
- Health cash plan, pension, life assurance, Employee Assistance Programme
- Blue Light Card, option to buy extra holiday
Who are we?
We are a social care provider and charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with other assessed needs to live active, fulfilling and independent lives. We work across England and Scotland and are registered with the Care Quality Commission and the Care Inspectorate.
Our values guide everything we do:
- People are at the heart of everything we do: we listen, we learn, we build on strengths.
- We give our best: what we do matters, and we take responsibility.
- We work together: we’re one team, valuing strengths and differences, being open and trusting.
- We have courage: we try new things, and we’re creative and adaptable.
How will I make an impact?
In this role, you’ll make a meaningful contribution to Affinity Trust’s ability to deliver life-changing support to people with learning disabilities. By ensuring invoices, payments, and financial records are managed accurately and efficiently, you’ll help protect the financial stability that keeps our services running smoothly and enables us to continue providing high-quality, person-centred support to those who rely on us every day.
Inclusion, accessibility and our commitment to diversity
Diversity is key to what we do. Life would be dull, and change slow, if we all thought the same way. We want colleagues who bring different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences, and we know this makes us stronger and better for the people we support.
We are committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
We’re also committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage, for example, accessible formats, support with the application form or adjustments for interview, you can tell us in your application or contact our recruitment team to discuss what you need.
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