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Sales Ledger Clerk

Ensures every penny owed is accurately invoiced and allocated.

Day to day

What a sales ledger clerk
actually does.

Works alongside Credit Control in larger businesses or oversees credit control in SMEs. Accuracy and a natural ability to manage money are essential. Ensures every penny owed is accurately invoiced and allocated. Here's what the role covers day to day across the businesses we recruit for.

  • Setting up new customer accounts
  • Raising sales ledger invoices
  • Adding VAT to invoices
  • Allocating payments
  • Reconciling statements
  • Managing rebates
  • Resolving associated queries
  • Banking
  • Ad hoc credit control duties

What it pays

£26k – £33k

Real market rates, not a national average.

The lower end suits a junior with 0–6 months' experience, studying AAT. £28k+ gets 1–2 years' experience, and £31k+ is the rate for an experienced, set-and-forget ledger clerk. Supervisors sit towards £33k.

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Medior Sales Ledger Clerk · Coventry

Typical: £31,500 per year

Medium-high confidence — strong regional evidence

Where this leads

From sales ledger clerk to
sales ledger manager.

Sales Ledger Manager

Often responsible for managing millions of pounds.

Explore Sales Ledger Manager

Hiring or looking?

Either way, we can help.

Hiring

Need a sales ledger clerk?

Permanent or temporary, we'll shortlist from a network we actually know — with working interviews to de-risk the hire.

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Job seeking

Ready to be one?

Send us your CV or browse live Sales Ledger Clerk roles across Coventry, Birmingham and Warwickshire.

Common questions

Sales Ledger Clerk FAQs.

What does a Sales Ledger Clerk do?

Works alongside Credit Control in larger businesses or oversees credit control in SMEs. Accuracy and a natural ability to manage money are essential. Ensures every penny owed is accurately invoiced and allocated.

How much does a Sales Ledger Clerk earn in the West Midlands?

Salaries for Sales Ledger Clerk roles across Coventry, Birmingham and Warwickshire typically sit at £26k – £33k. The lower end suits a junior with 0–6 months' experience, studying AAT. £28k+ gets 1–2 years' experience, and £31k+ is the rate for an experienced, set-and-forget ledger clerk. Supervisors sit towards £33k.

Is a Sales Ledger Clerk role permanent or temporary?

We recruit Sales Ledger Clerk positions on both a permanent and temporary basis, depending on what the business and the candidate need — many of our clients also use temp-to-perm as a low-risk way to trial a hire before committing.

What qualifications do I need to become a Sales Ledger Clerk?

Most Sales Ledger Clerk roles don't demand a specific formal qualification, though AAT study or relevant hands-on experience makes a real difference to the offers you'll see. We can talk you through what a specific vacancy is really looking for.

What's the career progression after Sales Ledger Clerk?

A common next step from Sales Ledger Clerk is sales ledger manager — often responsible for managing millions of pounds. Many of the candidates we place build exactly this kind of progression over several moves, not just one.

Do you place candidates studying towards a qualification into Sales Ledger Clerk roles?

Yes — candidates studying AAT (or considering starting) are very much part of the talent pool for Sales Ledger Clerk roles, alongside those with purely hands-on experience.

How does the process work if I want to become a Sales Ledger Clerk?

Submit your CV and a Market Expert will be in touch to talk through your experience, what you're looking for, and any live Sales Ledger Clerk opportunities that genuinely fit — free, confidential, and no obligation.

Do you charge candidates anything to apply for Sales Ledger Clerk roles?

No — there's never a cost to candidates, for this role or any other. Our fee is paid by the employer, and only once a placement is successfully made.

Will my CV be shared with employers without my permission?

No — nothing about your CV or your situation is shared with any employer without your explicit permission first.

Do you help with interview preparation and salary negotiation for Sales Ledger Clerk roles?

Yes — briefing you properly on the role, the employer and realistic salary expectations before an interview is a standard part of how we support every Sales Ledger Clerk candidate, not an optional extra.

Can I see live Sales Ledger Clerk vacancies before speaking to someone?

Yes — you can search live jobs on our careers portal, but we'd always recommend a conversation with a Market Expert too, since not every Sales Ledger Clerk vacancy we're working on is advertised publicly.

What does it cost an employer to recruit a Sales Ledger Clerk through you?

There's no retainer and no ongoing contract — our fee is only payable on a successful placement, whether that's a one-off hire or an ongoing relationship.

How quickly can you fill a Sales Ledger Clerk vacancy?

Temporary cover can often be arranged within days. Permanent Sales Ledger Clerk roles vary with seniority, but our shortlists are built from people we already know rather than a fresh keyword search, so they typically move faster than a generalist agency's.

Can you provide temporary Sales Ledger Clerk cover at short notice?

Yes — covering absence, leave or an unexpected gap in a Sales Ledger Clerk position is one of the most common reasons employers come to us, and we aim for a same-day response.

What happens if a Sales Ledger Clerk hire doesn't work out?

Our rebate periods and money-back guarantees mean you're covered if a placement doesn't work out as expected — ask your Market Expert for the specifics for your vacancy.

Do you offer working interviews for Sales Ledger Clerk vacancies?

Yes — a working interview means the candidate spends a real day in the Sales Ledger Clerk role, on your systems, with your actual workload, before either side commits. It's one of the ways we take the risk out of a new hire.

Do you recruit Sales Ledger Clerk roles for SMEs as well as large employers?

Yes — we work with everyone from internationally recognised brands and shared service centres through to owner-managed SMEs needing a single, sole-charge Sales Ledger Clerk hire.

Will I get a shortlist of CVs, or do you actually vet candidates for Sales Ledger Clerk roles?

Every candidate we put forward has been spoken to and assessed against your specific requirement — not just keyword-matched from a database. That's the difference a Market Expert model makes.

What makes Transaction Recruitment different from a generalist agency for Sales Ledger Clerk roles?

We recruit transactional finance and payroll specifically, not as one line among fifty sectors — that focus means genuinely knowing the Sales Ledger Clerk market, the going rate, and who's actually looking, rather than running a keyword search against a generic database.

No waffle. Just the right person.

Let's find your
sales ledger clerk.