Accounts Receivable Specialist - 6 Months

Your new company
Hays are delighted to be working with a reputable and growing organisation who is looking for an experienced Transactional Accounts Receivable Specialist to support their finance team on an interim basis. This role has been created to help manage increased workload, ensure timely cash collection, and strengthen AR processes during a key period.
Your new role
In this position, you will be responsible for maintaining the end-to-end Accounts Receivable process within the shared service centre.
Typical duties include:

• Raising, issuing, and checking customer invoices
• Ensuring accurate billing in line with contracts, PO requirements, and agreed pricing
• Allocating incoming customer payments to the correct accounts
• Reconciling AR ledgers and resolving discrepancies
• Monitoring the AR inbox and responding to customer queries
• Producing aged debt and AR summary reports
• Supporting month-end tasks including reconciliations and journals
• Assisting with process improvements and supporting new system workflows where required

• Raising sales invoices and credit notes
• Allocating receipts and maintaining customer accounts
• Supporting month-end processes including reconciliations
• Responding to internal and external customer queries
• Confident in processing high-volume transactions preferably within a shared service centre setting
• Reconcile billing records with financial systems
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in invoices, payments, and customer accounts
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date billing ledgers

• Competitive interim day rate or hourly rate
• Opportunity to support a busy finance team and add real value.
• Immediate start available
• Central Milton Keynes location
• 4 days office / 1 day from home after initial training
• Commitment for 6 months
• Monday to Friday 9-6pm