Accounts Assistant - Credit Control
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Position Overview & Specifications
Are you looking for a role within a busy finance team for a leading social enterprise based in London’s South Bank? We’re looking for an accounts assistant with experience reconciling customer accounts and maintaining a continuing relationship with customers.
This role is full time, working five days per week with a hybrid working location (office and home-based).
Coin Street is a social enterprise working in Waterloo and North Southwark, London SE1 and neighbouring boroughs. From a derelict site in 1984, we’ve created a thriving, diverse, vibrant and welcoming ‘mixed use’ neighbourhood – a place for people to live, work and play.
The Role
The Accounts Assistant will provide support to the Finance team, working in Credit Control, raising all invoices accurately and on time and managing the full debt collection processes using our online finance system.
You will have previous experience in credit control and computerised accounting systems, good understanding of accounting concepts and controls.
What we do
We provide the opportunities and spaces for people to lead their own change.
Our activities are wide and far reaching. From giving families and children the best start in life through our childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality live, work and play spaces on land which we own.
We promote enterprise, creativity and lifelong learning whether that’s through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise or delivering programmes and activities. We provide housing that supports our community; we champion co-operative housing and influence local and national housing policy.
From sports and dance to healthy eating and gardening, we offer a range of facilities and activities accessible to everyone to support health and wellbeing in our community.
In return we can offer you:
- 27 days’ annual leave (excluding bank holidays – pro rata for part-time)
- 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
- Flexible-working, including working from home
- Season ticket loan
- Health and wellbeing support, including online mental health therapy sessions
- Commitment to training and development
Contract
Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week
Salary
£28,000-£30,000 per annum
To Apply
Are you looking for a role within a busy finance team for a leading social enterprise based in London’s South Bank? We’re looking for an accounts assistant with experience reconciling customer accounts and maintaining a continuing relationship with customers.
This role is full time, working five days per week with a hybrid working location (office and home-based).
Coin Street is a social enterprise working in Waterloo and North Southwark, London SE1 and neighbouring boroughs. From a derelict site in 1984, we’ve created a thriving, diverse, vibrant and welcoming ‘mixed use’ neighbourhood – a place for people to live, work and play.
The Role
The Accounts Assistant will provide support to the Finance team, working in Credit Control, raising all invoices accurately and on time and managing the full debt collection processes using our online finance system.
You will have previous experience in credit control and computerised accounting systems, good understanding of accounting concepts and controls.
What we do
We provide the opportunities and spaces for people to lead their own change.
Our activities are wide and far reaching. From giving families and children the best start in life through our childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality live, work and play spaces on land which we own.
We promote enterprise, creativity and lifelong learning whether that’s through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise or delivering programmes and activities. We provide housing that supports our community; we champion co-operative housing and influence local and national housing policy.
From sports and dance to healthy eating and gardening, we offer a range of facilities and activities accessible to everyone to support health and wellbeing in our community.
In return we can offer you:
- 27 days’ annual leave (excluding bank holidays – pro rata for part-time)
- 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
- Flexible-working, including working from home
- Season ticket loan
- Health and wellbeing support, including online mental health therapy sessions
- Commitment to training and development
Contract
Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week
Salary
£28,000-£30,000 per annum
To Apply
Click on this link to be redirected to our Recruitment Portal. Applications will be viewed by hiring managers without sharing candidates' personal details (i.e. we will be undertaking a blind recruitment process).
If you have trouble accessing the portal, please email recruitment@coinstreet.org
Closing Date
Please send your application by midnight on 5th March 2023.
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Civic, Welfare & Social Services
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Accounts Assistant - Credit Control roles across Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB)'s corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Civic, Welfare & Social Services.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £28,000 - £30,000 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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