Japanese speaking Account Assistant

Position: Japanese speaking Account Assistant
Company: Japanese manufacturing company
Salary: £24-26K / year
Location: Leeds, UK
Language: Business level of English and Japanese

【Responsibility】

Credit control

• Checking customer’s credit
• Negotiating payment plans and setting up terms and conditions
• Credit checks and monitoring credit ratings
• Ensuring customers pay on time and provide for overdue invoices
• Maintaining accurate records
• Implementing changes in the company’s credit control system

Purchase Ledger
• Code and check invoices
• Work out VAT payments
• Check and reconcile supplier statements
• File invoices and statements in the system
• Deal with purchase enquiries
• Processing of staff expenses

Banking
• Processing payments in the system and reconciliations
• Processing bacs payments
• Banking of cheques

SAP Support

• Help Financial Controller provide SAP support to all areas of the business
• Assist with creating reports ad hoc as required by the business
• Point of contact between business and SAP Partner
• Support any SAP add on implementations
• IT point of contact between external IT company and SAP Partners.

【Essential knowledge, skills, qualifications】
- Accounting or Account Assistant experience, or BA in Accounting is a must
- Business level of both Japanese and English
- Debit and Credits understanding
- Confident phone manner
- Credit control experience (Preferred not essential)
- SAP B1 (Preferred not essential)
- Strong excel skills (Preferred not essential)
- IT literate