Accounts Receivable Assistant

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IFRS Foundation is seeking a full-time Accounts Receivable Assistant for a 12 month fixed-term contract in London to support the entire AR cycle and ensure accurate revenue entries. You will issue royalty invoices aligned with contracts, bill annual fees and fixed payments, set up advance invoices in Salesforce, manage credit notes, integrate invoices into Business Central with correct revenue deferral, monitor UK payments, handle the revenue inbox, and prepare monthly aged debt and other reconciliations while supporting monthly publications and ad hoc revenue reporting. Essential: AR/AP experience, multi-currency exposure, strong Excel, and high accuracy; proactive, organized, and a good communicator. Preferred: experience with Salesforce and Business Central, international environment. Apply with targeted examples of AR improvements and cross-functional collaboration, and show you can work onsite in London. Closing date 31 March 2026, role may close early.

London:  London, United Kingdom
Duration: 12 months, Fixed term contract
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

Purpose: The Accounts Receivable Assistant will support all stages of the accounts receivable process, ensuring that customer invoices and queries are handled promptly and effectively. Additionally, they play a crucial role in ensuring financial entries are accurately recorded.

Principal accountabilities

• Issue royalty invoices according to contractual agreements, ensuring that royalties are accurately calculated by the customer and correctly entered in Salesforce by the legal team
• Calculate and invoice annual fees and other fixed payments according to contractual agreement
• Set up advance opportunity invoices in Salesforce in line with contractual agreements
• Issue credit notes when required
• Integrate invoices into Business Central, ensuring correct deferral of revenue
• Monitor and process UK payments received
• Efficiently manage the revenue email inbox to promptly address and resolve customer queries and manage communications
• Credit control, collaborating closely with Legal and Translation, Adoption and Copyright (TAC) teams
• Send and reconcile monthly customer statements
• Prepare monthly reporting e.g. Aged Debtors reporting for presentation at monthly meetings
• Publications:
  • Run daily reports from the payment processing platform (Webshop)
  • Run invoice integration between Webshop and Business Central
  • Liaise with IT team to resolve invoices that fail integration
  • Liaise with Customer Services team to resolve any queries on invoices/payment received
  • Post cash receipt journals for all Webshop sales
  • Bank reconciliation (publications account)
  • Maintain refund register
  • Reconcile customer accounts
  • Reconcile stock report
  • Reconcile deferral report
  • Perform stock count at year-end

Salesforce

• Consistently maintain and update Salesforce to ensure it contains accurate and relevant contract information
• Continuously improve Salesforce processes to optimise royalty revenue coordination

Other:

• Support the timely preparation of revenue reports from Business Central and Salesforce
• Support the preparation of annual budgets
• Assist with balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist with internal and external audits
• Handle ad-hoc requirements
• Act as back-up to the revenue team and provide ad-hoc support to the revenue team and the wider Finance team as required

Skills and attributes

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work from own initiative
• Proactive manner, ability to use own initiative, and willingness to accept responsibility
• Process focussed and methodical manner, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Highly organised and focused, able to multi-task and manage workload to ensure that priorities are met
• A motivated team-player, who can work effectively with other team members
• Eagerness to learn and willingness to listen to others; ability to follow instructions and respond positively to constructive feedback 

Qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Work towards a recognized accounting qualification (AAT / ACCA / CIMA) (optional)
• Previous experience with accounts receivable and / or accounts payable is essential
• Previous experience working with multiple currencies
• Proficiency in Excel
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy

Preferred:

• Experience working in an international environment.
• Experience working with Business Central and Salesforce

Closing date: 31st March 2026

Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate before the closing date.

About us

At the IFRS Foundation, we believe better information leads to better decisions. We set financial reporting standards that enable companies to meet the evolving information needs of the global capital markets. United by our purpose to foster trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy, we engage in challenging, meaningful work every day—across all our areas of expertise.

If you share our passion for this mission, we want to hear from you.

Diverse perspectives. International expertise.

Working for our global organisation offers many benefits, including:

• rewarding work that serves the public interest;
• engagement with diverse international experts;
• inclusive and collaborative teams;
• intellectually challenging projects;
• flexible working arrangements;
• numerous areas of specialisation; and
• opportunities for professional growth and development.

Diversity and inclusion are seen as key strengths of our organisation. These qualities are essential for us to engage with and meet the needs of our varied global stakeholders, and they are part of what makes the IFRS Foundation a great place to work.

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