Accounts Clerk

About Us

Citygate is a highly successful, privately owned business that has grown significantly over the past twenty years to 650 employees across multiple locations including London, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We work with global brands (Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, SEAT, CUPRA, ŠKODA and Kia), provide excellent quality training and internal progression opportunities.

Citygate is founded on a simple vision: “to grow a business we are proud of through a commitment to excellence”. As a privately owned and entrepreneurial business, we're welcoming, inclusive, have a great team ethic and have worked hard to create a positive working environment that we can all be proud of.

We have ambitious plans for the future and we need driven, focused and skilled teams to help us achieve this. That's why every Citygate employee has access to our award-winning learning programme, whether that's operated from our purpose-built Citygate Academy facility or through working with our brand partners.

The inventive automotive industry has always been popular with the innovators and creators. But now, more than ever, it's the perfect career space for those looking to stand at the forefront of change – specifically, the transition to Electric Vehicles.

We are looking for an Accounts Clerk to Manage the day to day credit control function and to provide support for the Dealership management team

Your key responsibilities as an Accounts Clerk will be to:

• Communication with the dealership's individual salespersons regarding income funds for vehicle Debtors and posting the transactions individual.
• Processing daily direct debts.
• Verifying and paying payments for the following types of transaction cash refunds, deposit refunds, Hire Purchase settlement, other ad-hoc payments. Responsible for checking bank details before payment.
• Credit card refunds.
• Managing the manual cheques books for RFL payments in the individual branches and posting the resulting transactions.
• Posting the receipts from the following companies Motability and other finance companies.
• Staff expenses and petty cash.
• Managing the payments for TPS.
• Update cashflow for future payments going out.
• Helping the team to meet month timetable.
• Other ad-hoc duties.

With our benefits there is something good for everyone. We're a progressive business that believes building a good team culture is not only good for everyone who works for us – but it makes a difference to how we engage with customers too. That's why when you join Citygate, you can expect to receive a wide range of impressive employee benefits including:

• Access to our in-house training academy for everyone
• Internal career progression opportunities across our various brands and locations
• High street discounts
• Wellbeing portal
• Employee assistance programme
• Purchase, service and parts discounts
• Employee referral scheme
• Standard company benefits such as pension, life assurance cover, competitive holidays and cycle to work scheme