Accounts Assistant – Full-Time

Leamington Spa – 100% office-based role

£27,000 - £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 3^rd 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 2 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