The role will require someone who has experience across purchase ledger, sales ledger and nominal ledger.
This local business who are seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant to support them on a 3 month temporary contract. The role will require someone who has experience across purchase ledger, sales ledger and nominal ledger.
Job Description:
1. As the Accounts Assistant you will match, input and post purchase invoices into the invoice register and purchase ledger accurately
2. Review the Finance worktray and bulk post invoices that have been approved
3. Review worktray report for any discrepancies and resolve
4. Review supplier statements investigating and resolving any discrepancies
5. As the Accounts Assistant you will generate a weekly payment run; liaising with relevant signatories to arrange availability for authorisation / sign off
6. Ensure a remittance advice is issued to all suppliers with every payment that is made
7. As the Accounts Assistant you will raise sales invoices, review debtors report weekly to ensure payments are received promptly and any issues a resolved
8. Issue statements to debtors
9. Allocate income to invoices
10. Nominal Ledger
11. Bank reconciliation
12. General ledger posting
Candidate Requirements:
13. Experience of maintaining a finance function including sales ledger, purchase ledger and cashbook
14. Previous experience within housing and knowledge of services charges would be an advantage
15. Previous experience dealing with multiple cost centres would be ideal
16. Experience of working with computerised finance packages
17. Experience of communicating professionally and competently to resolve queries
18. Experience of working to deadlines
19. Strong numerical, logical and analytical skills
20. Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly at all levels
21. High degree of accuracy in work undertaken and strong attention to detail
22. Knowledge of windows-based software including word, excel, MS Office
23. Ability to manage and prioritise multiple work requests with little supervision using own initiative
24. Excellent planning and organizational skills with an ability to meet tight deadlines
25. Excellent communication & presentational skills- oral, IT and written to serve differing audiences.
Hours: Monday – Thursday – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Friday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Salary: £16.11 per hour
Brampton Recruitment are an independent Commercial and Accounts & Finance recruitment agency working in partnership with employers spanning Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, Cheshire, and the Greater Manchester region.