Job Title - Part Time Accounts Assistant
Location - North Leicester
Hours - Part time - Monday - Thursday 22.5 hours per week
Salary - £30,000 FTE
SF Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Part Time Accounts Assistant to work for our client in North Leicester. As the Part Time Accounts Assistant you will be responsible you will be responsible for maintaining the Purchase & Sales ledger whilst ensuring correct procedures are followed to strict timescales. Supporting the Finance Manager in the timely preparation of financial information, accounts and reports and ensuring that the business activities can be correctly determined and analysed.
Main duties as the Part Time Accounts Assistant
Purchase Ledger
- Registering all invoices
- Matching invoices with purchase order and coding
- Liaising with Purchase department with query invoices
- Dealing with queries from suppliers and advising them about payments
- BACS payments
- Paying suppliers
- Setting up new suppliers
- Ensuring all invoices are filed accurately
- Reconciling Supplier statements and filing
- Posting of Direct Debits and maintaining Direct Debits list
- Balancing of Purchase Ledger control account
Sales Ledger
- Maintain the credit control function in all various aspects (phone, email, letter)
- Liaise with solicitors regarding bad debt recovery
- Sending of all sales invoices and monthly statements
- Listing and posting of all incoming BACS/cheque payments
- Preparing and balancing of cashbook
- Ensure all new accounts are properly vetted - credit agency ratings - fixed credit limit and terms
- Balancing of Sales Ledger control account
Other Tasks
- Monthly payroll information gathering to send to payroll bureau for processing
- Adhere to payroll policies and procedures and relevant law
- Maintain the confidentiality of employees' pay records
- Liaise with external payroll company and HR function to ensure payroll is processed each month.
- Analyse all company credit card and cash expenses ensuring that Company policy, current VAT and P11D legislation is adhered to
- Control of petty cash including foreign currency
- Reconcile accruals list
- Assisting in preparation and posting of month-end journals
- Bank reconciliation
- Assisting in verification of Control Accounts
- Generate monthly spreadsheets
- Providing other such duties as may be reasonably required by the finance function
- Assistance in annual stock take
If you feel you have the right skills for this role please apply today or contact me directly on (url removed)
Accounts Assistant
SF Recruitment
Posted 11 hours ago, valid for 15 days
Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 4PG, England

£29,000 - £30,000 per annum
Full Time
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Sonic Summary
- The job is for a Part Time Accounts Assistant located in North Leicester, requiring 22.5 hours of work per week from Monday to Thursday.
- The position offers a salary of £30,000 FTE and involves maintaining both Purchase and Sales ledgers while adhering to strict procedures and timelines.
- Key responsibilities include registering invoices, managing credit control, and liaising with suppliers and the finance team to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Candidates should have relevant experience in finance or accounting, although the specific number of years required is not mentioned in the job description.
- Interested applicants are encouraged to apply or contact the recruiter directly for further information.