Accounts Administrator required for a family run business near St Ives, Cambridgeshire.
Salary: £22,011
Hours: 8:30am-5:00pm Monday – Friday (4:30pm finish on a Friday)
Immediate start available
Lots of company benefits
Progression plan available
We are looking for an Accounts Administrator who enjoys variety and has a keen interest in working with numbers and monetary transactions.
The role will include supporting the accounts team with sales and purchase ledgers; ad-hoc admin duties which include processing supplier invoices, dealing with supplier and customer queries, chasing courier claims, and keeping spreadsheets up to date. Supporting with month-ends and years-ends.
The successful candidate will need to have strong attention to detail with accuracy, conscientious and self-motivation with a can-do attitude and good communication skills and be computer literate with the ability to use Excel at an intermediate level. Ideally we would like this person to have a Level 2 Accountancy qualification or working towards it.
Tasks include:
· Monthly - Send out statements to customers
· Maintain and Deal with accounts customer and supplier emails
· Support for Creditsafe email alerts
· Cover the Accounts Office manager with overseas orders – keeping spreadsheet up to date and dealing with incoming emails
· Email invoices to overseas customers and deal with queries and raising the daily UK invoices
· Support with emails from customers and sales staff
· Initial credit checks admin for new customers and increase limits for existing customers for Accounts Office Manager sign off
· Check and post all non Purchase Orders invoices (PO) and PO invoices to relevant suppliers accounts
· Update freight costing sheet
· Assist with staff expenses and company credit cards
· Adhoc admin duties
· Assist with month-end processes
· Freight claims
· Create, record and post payment links and support with chasing with credit control
You must be:
* Self-motivated and keen to learn
* Able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
* Able to pay attention to detail and self-check
Skills required:
* Excellent telephone manner
* Computer literate, confidence in use of MS Office, internet and email in particular, Excel
* Proven experience in an Accounts role within an accounts team
* Proven people management experience
Please apply today