Accounts Receivable Manager
4 days ago
Ellesmere Port
Chester – Up to c.£35,000 + 15% bonus Axon Moore is delighted to be partnering with a leading organisation in Chester to recruit an Accounts Receivable Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AR professional or a strong Senior AR/Transactional Specialist who is ready to step up into management. This role sits at the heart of the finance function, overseeing invoicing, cash allocation, and customer account management while supporting a high‑performing team. You'll play a key role in driving process improvement, developing people, and ensuring the smooth running of all AR activity. • Lead, coach and support a small AR team, providing regular 1:1s, development and performance management, • Act as the escalation point for Invoicing Administrators, Credit Controllers and Operations, • Organise day-to-day workflow to ensure deadlines and KPIs are consistently met, • Drive a culture of continuous improvement across AR and wider finance, • Oversee the full EDI sales invoicing process, resolving system warnings and ensuring supplier compliance, • Manage trade invoicing, product queries and rent invoicing schedules, • Process monthly RPI/CPI rent adjustments accurately and in line with contractual terms, • Ensure all agreement changes are correctly reflected in the system from a billing and reconciliation perspective, • Produce the weekly direct debit run and work closely with Credit Control on forecasting and reporting, • Handle ad‑hoc invoicing, credits and regular upload requests, • Process and reconcile cash receipts, open banking payments and card transactions, • Maintain and resolve unallocated cash accounts, • Build strong relationships with Credit Control, Operations and BDMs to resolve customer disputes, • Support the annual audit with required documentation, • Provide cover for other transactional roles when needed, • Minimum 3 years’ experience in Accounts Receivable or a similar transactional finance role, • Previous team leadership experience is ideal - but this role is also perfect for someone ready to step up, • AAT or similar qualification is desirable, • Strong communication and relationship‑building skills, • High attention to detail and accuracy, • Confident with systems and Excel, able to produce structured reports, • Organised, proactive and adaptable, with a continuous improvement mindset, • Able to promote a positive, collaborative team culture, • Brilliant opportunity for progression into people management, • Strong bonus structure (15%), • Supportive leadership and a collaborative finance team, • Chester‑based head office with a stable, growing business #J-18808-Ljbffr