Finance Assistant

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

7/30/2025

Come and join Sepura Limited at an exciting time of growth and progress your career within this innovative technology company, based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.

Role

You will be a highly motivated Finance Assistant interested in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processes. This role will primarily be responsible for the day-to-day tasks within the Credit Control function and will also provide support to the Accounts Payable team.

Responsibilities will include invoicing, managing customer and supplier accounts, cash collection, general maintenance of Sales and Purchase Ledgers, month end tasks and yearly audit tasks. This role will support the Treasury Manager in providing effective control over the company’s debtors and producing timely and accurate management reports including cash collection and analysis.

Your Day To Day

Accounts Receivable

• Set up and maintain customer accounts within the ERP system.
• Ensure that customer accounts are effectively managed within their terms and regular credit reviews are conducted. This will also involve liaising with other departments including Sales and Logistics.
• Build relationships with customers to aid the timely collection of invoices within credit terms set.
• Cash chasing and posting.
• Liaise with Logistics, Sales and others to resolve issues which may delay payment of invoices, escalating where necessary.
• Responsibility for producing invoices in accordance with customer orders, working closely with Order Desk and Logistics departments.
• Raising invoices and credit notes.
• Maintain the company’s Sales Ledger and perform regular reconciliations to agree to nominal ledger balances.
• Produce timely and accurate management information, including Weekly Overdue Debtors review and Cash Collections Forecast.
• Maintain the receivables inbox, dealing with internal and external queries as they arise.
• Month end revaluations and Balance Sheet reconciliations.
  
  

Accounts Payable

• Provide support and cover for the Accounts Payable Team.
• Maintain outstanding invoices in Kefron, chase end users for receipting and match invoices to GRN.
• Maintain outstanding GRNI listing to ensure transactions are processed and cleared from the ledger timely.
• Match payments to invoices and chase suppliers for missing invoices.
  
  

Other:

• Additional ad hoc duties as required.
• Provide support and cover to the Treasury Manager as and when required.
• Annual audit support.
  
  

What you need to succeed:

Experience

• Previous Credit Control or previous Accounts Payable experience desirable.
• Experience working within a global business with multicurrency.
  
  

Knowledge

• Microsoft Dynamics AX or Microsoft D365 ERP systems.
• Double entry bookkeeping.
• Excel; X Lookups and Pivot Tables.
  
  

Skills

• Good people skills are required to establish and maintain excellent customer relationships.
• Good computer skills as this role requires a high degree of processing skills.
• Exercise discretion and personal integrity.
• Able to work to own initiative with minimal supervision.
• Being a good team player with a diligent, methodical approach.