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Accounts Assistant/ Management Over Transactional Accounts / Varied and Fulfilling Position/ Sage 50/ Excellent Benefits
Accounts Assistant Role Overview:
We are supporting a City Centre Organisation with a requirement for an Accounts Assistant. You will independently support the Head of Finance and the Management Accountant to ensure the smooth operation of all accounting processes for multiple business entities.
This position will take full and independent responsibility for all transactional accounting and reporting activity and so will require previous experience in a similar capacity with the ability to manage output to ensure that strict time frames are met. Previous sales ledger and purchase ledger experience is essential in addition to cash management and bank reconciliations exposure.
Accounts Assistant Responsibilities:
- Effectively planning, organising, and managing own workload to ensure monthly financial reporting processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner.
- Processing of purchase invoices with their respective purchase orders, ensuring invoices are accurately matched, recorded, signed off, coded and paid correctly.
- Accurately raising and sending of sales invoices
- preparation of monthly debtor statements
- Proactive credit control to ensure that outstanding amounts are settled within agreed terms.
- Allocation of incoming payments to relevant accounts.
- Assist in the production of month end reports and the preparation of spreadsheets.
- Reconciliation and posting of credit card expenditure to the general ledger.
- Reconciliation of head office expenditure, coding and posting.
- Weekly bank reconciliations for multiple accounts.
- Liaising with suppliers and customers as required, building and maintaining strong relationships.
- Support with Payroll processing occasionally as required.
- Supporting with budgeting and recording of actual spend variances.
- Assist the Management Accountant with month-end and year-end year preparation and procedures.
Accounts Assistant Required Experience:Â
- Previous experience in a similar accounting capacity with responsibility over all transactional accounting processes.
- Responsibility in a standalone accounts capacity is highly advantageous.
- Experience of; end to end Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger processes, Credit Control and Bank Reconciliations is essential.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work from own initiative to ensure effective time management.
- The ability to effectively prioritise workloads to ensure that strict time deadlines can be achieved.
- A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to process high volumes of financial data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders through professional communication.
- Excellent computerised accounting skills – Advanced Excel and previous use of Sage 50 is essential.
- A motivated approach to tasks and duties with a self-starter mentality.
- The ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience of working in a commercially confidential environment.
- A customer focussed approach and mentality.
- AAT/ Degree qualifications are highly advantageous but not essential.
If you have the skills and experience outlined above and are looking for a varied and fulfilling opportunity within an excellent organisation – Please get in touch. Phone: , email:  or apply to be contacted.
This is an office-based position and so applicants will need to live within a commutable distance of Manchester city centre.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome all applicants of identity, personal characteristics, or background.
