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Senior Sales Ledger

Milton Keynes Permanent £36,000 - £40,000 per year View Job Description
The Senior Sales Ledger will oversee all aspects of sales ledger management, ensuring accurate billing and smooth financial operations. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in accounting who is keen to make an impact in the business in Milton Keynes.
  • Great career opportunity
  • Hybrid working

About Our Client

The organisation is a well-established, medium-sized company. They focus on delivering tailored solutions to their clients, supported by a robust and efficient finance team.

Job Description

  • Lead and oversee the end-to-end billing function across planned maintenance, reactive works, extras and project revenue streams, ensuring invoices are raised accurately and on time.
  • Ensure all billing is issued in accordance with customer contracts, agreed rates, billing schedules, commercial terms and supporting documentation.
  • Establish and maintain robust billing controls to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance, reducing billing errors, omissions and delays.
  • Manage the reconciliation of contracts, charge schedules and approved works to billed values, ensuring revenue is accurately captured and invoiced.
  • Oversee the tracking and management of customer purchase orders (POs), proactively resolving issues that may delay invoicing.
  • Work closely with Account Managers and operational teams to obtain timely and accurate billing information, holding stakeholders accountable to agreed billing deadlines.
  • Monitor and review aged unbilled revenue, driving actions to resolve billing delays and minimise revenue at risk.
  • Collaborate closely with Credit Control to resolve billing queries promptly and support effective cash collection.
  • Produce and analyse billing KPIs and management reporting, including billing accuracy, invoice timeliness, unbilled revenue and PO-related delays.
  • Lead process improvement initiatives to standardise and strengthen billing processes, controls and reporting across the business.
  • Support finance transformation, shared service centre initiatives and system improvements relating to billing operations.
  • Manage, develop and mentor the billing team, fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy and continuous improvement.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Sales Ledger should have:

  • Proven experience in a billing leadership, revenue operations or billing management role within a B2B services environment.
  • Strong understanding of contract-based billing, including customer terms, billing schedules, agreed rates, milestones and commercial agreements.
  • Experience managing multiple revenue streams, including planned maintenance, reactive works, additional services and project-based billing.
  • Strong knowledge of contract-to-bill reconciliations, revenue completeness and billing controls.
  • Experience managing customer purchase order (PO) processes and mitigating billing delays caused by missing or expired POs.
  • Demonstrable experience working closely with operational and account management teams to obtain accurate and timely billing information.
  • A strong process improvement mindset with the ability to standardise and enhance billing accuracy, controls and efficiency.
  • Excellent attention to detail, organisational skills and the ability to challenge incomplete or inconsistent billing information.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience using finance and ERP systems, ideally Sage Intacct or similar.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience producing billing KPIs, unbilled revenue reporting and management information.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior operational teams and hold colleagues accountable to deadlines.
  • Proven experience managing, coaching and developing billing or finance teams in a fast-paced environment.

What's on Offer

  • Competitive salary ranging from £36,000 to £40,000 per annum.
  • Permanent position based in Milton Keynes, offering stability and growth opportunities.
  • Can commit to 4 days in the Milton Keynes office.
  • Opportunities to refine and enhance your expertise in accounting and finance.
  • Additional benefits to be confirmed upon offer.



If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role in Milton Keynes, we encourage you to apply for this Senior Sales Ledger position today.

Contact
Natasha Davies
Quote job ref
JN-072026-7062998
Phone number
+441189337062

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Accounts Receivable
Sector
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Milton Keynes
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Natasha Davies
Consultant phone
+441189337062
Job reference
JN-072026-7062998