Accounts Receivable Associate - Samworth Brothers : Job Details

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
• Hybrid working based in Calington, Cornwall

The OpportunityDo you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic finance environment? Are you a detail-oriented professional with a passion for numbers, processes, and customer communication? If so, we’d love to hear from you! We are looking for an enthusiastic Accounts Receivable Associate to join our Finance Shared Service Centre. In this role, you’ll be a key player in managing aged debtors, allocating daily cash receipts, resolving invoice disputes, and ensuring prompt customer payments. You’ll be joining a collaborative team that embraces change, automation, and continuous improvement. Strong organisation and communication skills are essential as you’ll be liaising across departments and with external partners.

• Process and allocate customer payments accurately, including daily cash postings and reconciliation.
• Monitor and manage aged debtors, chasing overdue invoices via phone, email, and letter.
• Resolve billing disputes by liaising with customers and internal teams, ensuring timely credit notes and adjustments.
• Generate and post sales invoices, ensuring product pricing and customer data are accurate.
• Provide regular reporting on debtor performance and support monthly financial close activities.

The Ideal CandidateWe believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -

• Relevant experience in a finance or accounts receivable role (desirable but not essential).
• Strong Excel skills, including the ability to work with formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis.
• High attention to detail with excellent organisational and time management abilities.
• Confident communicator, able to engage effectively with customers and internal teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-driven environment with evolving systems and processes.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.