An opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Receivable Clerk to play a key role in delivering high quality business processes. The successful applicant will need to have a flexible attitude to work and see challenge and change as a positive.

What you’ll be doing:

• To ensure the efficient and timely processing of Accounts Receivable invoices in the Capita Shared Service Centre
• Liaise with the onsite contact manager to ensure the service delivered meets the clients needs and the requirements of the contract
• Deal with queries arising from either customers or retained Council staff in a prompt and informative manner
• Deal with customers both over the phone and email
   

What we’re looking for:

• 3 GCSE A*- C (or equivalent) including Maths and English.
• Experience of working in a team, preferably within a financial environment.
• Good listening skills
• Understanding of the importance of keeping good records.
• Ability to demonstrate confident and effective communication skills with both internal and external customers by telephone, email and letter.
• Be self-motivated, flexible whilst organised, to ensure deadlines are met the minimum of supervision.
• Knowledge and ability to use standard office IT systems (e.g. Excel and Word) for the input and retrieval of data).
• Tenacious but patient.

About Capita| Local Government Services

• We are Capita, the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions. Through bespoke, quality solutions, we've helped countless organisations unlock value and maximise their potential. With access to our range of unique and diverse opportunities, offering real career advancement and progression, we can unlock your potential too.
• Capita Local Government Services (LGS), a branch of Capita Business Services Ltd, specialises in providing support, advice and resources to local authorities throughout the UK.

• What's in it for you?
• At Capita, we believe an open, transparent working environment that encourages ingenuity and collaboration - with colleagues, customers and clients - is what makes us so effective at what we do.
• As well as a generous basic salary, we also give you company matched pension scheme and access to a variety of voluntary benefit options. These include a share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle, such as retail, health & wellbeing and leisure discounts.
• You'll be joining a network of some of the most experienced, innovative and dedicated people in the country - the opportunities to learn new skills, develop in your career and grow and as we grow are almost endless. Our mission is to help you realise your potential - whatever that means to you.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. If you have any questions you’d like to ask before applying, you can contact Sophie Bennett (Sophie.clarke3@capita.com)

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.