Accounts Assistant
Horsham, West Sussex
Permanent, Full-time
Salary £25,000-28,000pa (salary negotiable)
A growing business based in 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.
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
- 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
- Assisting with new finance system implementation
- Ad hoc tasks as required