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Accounts Assistant

AFR Consulting
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 21 days
Location

Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire FY8 5JY, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • An experienced Accounts Assistant is needed to support the Finance Manager at a growing company in Lytham.
  • The role involves handling transactional accounting duties, including purchase ledger, bank reconciliations, and credit control.
  • Candidates must have previous accounting experience, particularly with both purchase and sales ledgers.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, free on-site parking, and a pension, with working hours from 8 AM to 5 PM, totaling 42.5 hours per week.
  • This role is 100% office-based and requires strong organizational and analytical skills, along with effective communication abilities.

Our exclusive client based in Lytham are currently recruiting for an experienced Accounts Assistant to work alongside the Finance Manager. The company are going through a period of growth and due to the increase in workload, need someone to deal with the transactional accounting duties.

Responsibilities include:

  • Purchase ledger duties including processing invoices, supplier statement reconciliations and dealing with queries
  • Preparing weekly/monthly payment runs
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Assistant at month end
  • Credit control duties including chasing any overdue debts and deal with any queries to ensure prompt payment
  • Allocating payments and raising credit notes where necessary
  • Creating, sending and following up on invoices
  • Any other adhoc transactional accounting duties

You must have previous accounting experience to be considered for this role ideally on both the purchase ledger and sales ledger. You will be naturally organised, have strong analytical skills and be able to work to deadlines. You will also be a confident communicator.

In return you will receive a competitive salary, , free on site parking and pension. The hours of work for this role are 8-5 (42.5 hours per week)

If you are looking for a new and varied role, please apply to Tammy Smith. Please note, this role is 100% office based.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.