Finance - Sales Ledger Controller
Are you a detail-oriented professional with a knack for numbers and a passion for fresh, high-quality products? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
As a Sales Ledger Controller at Vitacress, you will play a crucial role in our Group Finance department, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our sales ledger. You will have the chance to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with a dedicated team.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- Liaising with customers and internal departments to resolve queries and disputes.
- Resolution of bank reconciliation items arising from sales ledger allocations.
- Proactively manage aged debt.
- Intercompany recharges.
- Ensuring all customer accounts are reconciled monthly and outstanding amounts have been followed up with customers.
- Preparing cash collection forecasts.
This role is instrumental in ensuring financial accuracy, customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance and providing the financial data needed for strategic decisions and growth. You will be a key contribution to the company's financial stability and long-term success.
You will be working 40 hours per week between Mon – Friday. You will also receive a salary of up to £25,000, plus bonus!
If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for finance and fresh produce, we want to hear from you. Please apply directly through our careers site!
Vitacress is the leading supplier of Herbs and Salads products in the UK with our main sites in Andover, Chichester and Portugal. We take immense pride in our work ensuring our consumers have a fresh, quality product to enhance their home cooking or enhance their garden environment. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standards and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads, herbs and horticultural plants that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing our talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
We are one of Europe's leading suppliers of fresh produce, specialising in watercress, salads and fresh herbs.
Established in Hampshire 1951, we became part of the RAR Group in 2008. We have a proud heritage of market-leading innovation including the introduction of living herbs, and baby leaf salads, and market-defining salad leaves including bagged watercress, rocket and baby spinach. We have a wide range of customers in the UK, both under supermarket own brands and Steve's Leaves, we are branded market-leaders in Portugal and also operate in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We employ 1500 people across Europe. We're passionate about promoting the use of fresh produce, which is why we have introduced the Herbilicious and Wild for Watercress campaigns, as well as participating in the Make More of Salad campaign run by the British Leafy Salad Association.
We have farms in the UK, Portugal, Germany and Spain, and a global sourcing network to ensure that, no matter what the season, we supply the freshest, tastiest, healthiest, most exciting products on the market. We are determined to leave things better than we found them, and as such we have set up the Vitacress Conservation Trust to promote the well being of the unique chalk stream habitats where many of our watercress sites are based.
Please visit our sustainability section to learn more about our work and our partners.
Culture Close to the Soil
The Vitacress team has one goal; to provide the freshest, tastiest, healthiest and most exciting produce throughout the year. Inspired by our heritage and pioneering spirit, we constantly strive to bring new ideas to the market.
We win customers’ trust by delivering the best in quality, service and ethical standards. Our people care for and endeavour to protect and enhance nature, our growing business and the communities in which we work.
This translates into the company values:
Always deliver quality - We take pride in ensuring our product is of the best possible standard.
Do the right thing - From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we sustain with client, everyone knows exactly what is going on. At the centre of everything is a trust that has been built over years of excellent service.
Nurture the future - From the herbs and salads that are grown on site. To the investment in facilities and the growth of the business. We're focussed on always improving our offer and ourselves, leading the way forward.
Other details
- Job Family Finance
- Pay Type Salary
- Vitacress Limited, Pagham Road, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom