Accounts Assistant – Full-Time
Leamington Spa – 100% office-based role
£29,000 - £30,000
Hours of Work: 8.30am - 4.30pm (37.5 hrs per week)
Accounts Assistant Job Description & Person Specification
Our highly established and successful client is looking for an experienced Full-Time Accounts Assistant to support the Finance Manager and other colleagues in the accounting team with day-to-day operations.
The successful candidate will possess exceptional organisational and time management skills, and experience working successfully in a fast-paced environment.
The Role:
* Responsible for checking and resolving site bookwork queries
* Checking Cash purchase receipts – Vat and coding
* Checking Cashless Sales Data
* Investigating site Cash Variances
* Importing site Data from internal intranet system to accounting systems
* Allocation of Client accounts, responsible for the checking and production of monthly client trading accounts
* Accounts Payable Duties - high volume - supplier payments / queries - copy invoices
* Sales Ledger Duties - raise sales invoices - raise client statements - dealing with client PO data / systems
* Nominal Journals
* Work with the Finance Manager to improve the efficiencies of Accounts Dept operations and work processes.
* Support the Operations Team in dealing with queries / issues as required
* Undertaking any other tasks/duties as may be reasonably required.
* Ability to effectively forward information to 3rd party providers, a small group or on individual basis, as well as to other members of staff of the company
* The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadline to achieve objectives
* Need to be self-motivated, conscientious and thorough.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and strong attention to detail required
Essential:
A minimum of 4 years’ generalist accounting experience within a busy, volume-based role – to include, sales ledger, purchase ledger and nominal ledger
Proficient user of MS Excel and accounting systems
Knowledge of VAT and how to calculate VAT from cash receipts
Systems:
Company Intranet System
Microsoft GP2018
Microsoft 365
Excel Experience Essential