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Accounts Assistant
Horsham, West Sussex
Permanent, Full-time
Salary £26,000-28,000 (negotiable)
A growing entrepreneurial business based in central Horsham is currently seeking a committed Accounts Assistant to join their team in a varied finance role. This organisation is building upon several years of healthy growth and expanding its operations, which means they need extra support across sales & purchase ledger, cash books, expenses, and various reconciliation tasks.
Candidates will either come from a varied finance admin background incorporating various aspects of bookkeeping, or be looking for a more varied role with existing experience in purchase ledger as a key experience focus here.
This long-standing business can offer a supportive, friendly office environment and good job security. Having worked with this Finance Manager for many years, we have seen how highly they invest in their staff and how many people have flourished under their leadership. Study support will also be provided to those keen to gain a professional qualification within accountancy, but it is not a requirement that this person study.
Overview of duties:
- Supplier invoice/credit note processing.
- Handling supplier queries
- Transaction validation using system reports.
- Supplier statement checking and reconciliation.
- BACS payments processing - weekly, month end and ad hoc
- Processing Sales/Purchase Ledger Contra’s
- Periodic reconciliations for both ledgers.
- Processing Direct Debit collections and rejections
- Processing and posting refunds to sales ledger and purchase ledger accounts
- Maintaining and reconciling Cash Books
- Cash Book period end processing
- Processing Cheques and Bacs received from Customers.
- Processing Expenses
- Credit control
- Ensuring disputes, queries and unallocated amounts are cleared for both ledgers.
- Generation and utilisation of Experian and aged debt reports for Credit Control and for the maintenance of the Sales Ledger
- Producing customer statements and conducting Sales ledger reconciliations
Please apply via website or contact Georgina at Harvey John for more information.
