Senior Sales Ledger

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. Client Details 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. 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. Profile 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. Job 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.