Accounts Receivable Assistant
Heriot Watt University
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Posted on 15 Sep
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Experience
2 - 7 Years
Job Location
Education
Bachelor of Commerce(Commerce)
Nationality
Any Nationality
Gender
Not Mentioned
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Summary of Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Banking:
- Managing the routine admin relationship with the bank.
- Issues with PDC s (wrong dates, amounts, signatures, insufficient funds..)
- Requesting return of PDC s held within the cheque warehousing facility of the bank.
- Updating and requesting approval of any changes to bank mandates etc.
- Any other bank related administration.
- Analysing and posting bank transactions in the accounting system.
- Reporting on daily balances.
- Reconciling bank statements .
- Liaising with the UK based Treasury Team as and when necessary on any of the above related matters.
Cash management:
At peak times, assist the cashiers with their duties:
- Receiving student payments, issuing receipts and invoices, updating student financial records.
- End of day cash management processes.
- Prepare banking deposits.
Credit control:
- Assist Credit Controller by:
- Reviewing / reconciling student financial records and preparing student debtor reports.
- Correct / apply adjustments to student financial records where necessary. On the instruction of the Credit Controller place student accounts on hold (financial) and off hold (financial) on the student registry system (Banner).
- Monitoring receipts from external organisations vs sales ledger information and prepare customer debtor reports.
- Provide reports to the credit controller and any other necessary paperwork / data gathering to support the debt management process.
Invoicing:
Create and Issue all external sales invoices as and when advised
Desired Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Minimum of two years' experience as a Cashier or Assistant Accountant, preferably within a school/higher education environment.
- Excellent English language skills including reading, writing, speaking and listening.
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, databases and different software.
- Positive interpersonal and communication skills.
- The ability to multi task and cope with a degree of pressure at peak times.
- Experience of using an on-line banking platform to run enquiries and review transactions
Desirable:
- Experience of Higher Education
- Specific Oracle Fusion ERP software package knowledge and experience
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Heriot Watt University
With a history dating back to 1821, Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant, leading-edge research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry. We are a vibrant, forward-looking university, well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our graduates. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland s international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 students in 143 countries around the world, have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the largest international student cohort in Scotland. At Heriot-Watt we ve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers, staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions. We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our focus on careers delivers results and we ve an excellent reputation for graduate employability. In addition to the Edinburgh campus, we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia. For all of our campuses we aim to provide stimulating, supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research, where staff and students can excel. At Heriot-Watt, we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership, and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities. Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to be. Our values are: As learning, living and working institution, we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of Heriot-Watt University. They represent what binds us together as a University community and help us to become the best at what we do.
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