Accounts Receivable Assistant

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Temporary Full-Time

Bazooka Candy Brands is looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Accounts Receivable Assistant to join our UK Finance team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the AR ledger, ensuring invoices are raised accurately, cash is allocated promptly, and customer accounts are kept in good order.

Alongside your core AR duties, you will provide support to the team on pricing administration – helping to maintain and update customer price lists and assisting with pricing queries as they arise. This is a great opportunity for someone with a solid transactional finance background who is looking to broaden their commercial exposure in a fast-paced consumer goods environment.

• Raise and issue customer invoices accurately and in a timely manner, ensuring alignment with sales orders and agreed terms.
• Allocate and reconcile incoming cash payments to customer accounts on a daily basis.
• Proactively chase overdue accounts via phone and email, maintaining a professional and constructive relationship with customers throughout.
• Maintain the AR ledger, ensuring all customer accounts are accurate, up to date, and fully reconciled at month end.
• Process customer credit notes, deductions, and short payments, resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Prepare and distribute aged debt reports, escalating problem accounts to the Financial Controller with clear commentary.
• Act as a first point of contact for customer finance queries, responding efficiently and professionally.
• Support the month-end close process with AR reconciliations and relevant accruals.
• Assist with cash flow reporting by providing accurate receivables data and collection updates.
• Assist with the maintenance and updating of customer price lists, ensuring changes are reflected accurately in the system.
• Help process pricing updates in the ERP system, coordinating with the Commercial and Sales teams on effective dates and approvals.
• Support the resolution of pricing-related invoice queries by investigating discrepancies between system prices and customer agreements.
• Maintain an organised log of pricing changes to support audit trails and version control.

• Adhere to internal controls and finance policies across all transactional activities.
• Support the Finance team with ad hoc tasks and cover during periods of absence.
• Assist with internal and external audit queries relating to receivables and pricing as required.

• 3–5years of experience in an accounts receivable, billing, or transactional finance role.
• Confident in customer-facing communication, including chasing overdue payments.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, basic formulas).
• Experience with an ERP or accounting system; any exposure to Net Suite or Oracle is an advantage.
• AAT qualified or part-qualified, or equivalent experience in a similar role.
• Exposure to pricing administration or data maintenance is desirable but not essential.
• Consumer goods or product-based business experience is a plus.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Proactive and self-motivated – able to manage a busy workload and prioritise effectively.
• A clear and confident communicator, comfortable dealing with customers and colleagues at all levels.
• A collaborative team player who gets stuck in and supports the wider team.
• Someone who takes ownership of their work and follows through on tasks to completion.