Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant

Mansfield

Salary - £26,000

Office Based

Would consider temp to perm contract or permanent.

We are currently recruiting a Finance Assistant for a diversified manufacturer and supplier of premium building products and related technologies for the commercial and residential construction markets.

The Finance Assistant role will have responsibility of performing any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. We are looking for someone experienced in credit control but willing to go into other finance tasks as a small team, keen and comfortable to be on the phone with people and good with excel.

Some key responsibilities will include -

Accounts Payable

• Record purchase invoices, electronically, on a daily basis reconciling to POs and invoices
• Reconcile purchase ledger balances to supplier statements
• Raise supplier payments following authorisation from management

Accounts Receivable

• Record purchase invoices, electronically, on a daily basis reconciling to POs and invoices
• Credit Control of sales ledger, effective monitoring and proactive approach to chasing debts
• Aged debt reporting
• Allocation of cash receipts and payments for the company’s bank accounts ensuring the cash books are kept up to date on a daily basis

Accounts & Reporting

• Bank reconciliations, BACS payments, ensuring all payments are allocated to invoices correctly
• Production of monthly bank reconciliations
• Assistance with company VAT returns
• Participate in quarterly and year end reporting where necessary
• Production of standard reports and assist with company audits
• Good understanding of accruals and prepayments having had exposure to this in a previous role

The above list is not exhaustive and your duties may vary from time to time to suit company needs

Qualifications and skills required for the role -

• English & Maths
• AAT or working towards AAT.
• High attention to detail.
• Previous SAP Experience.
• An excellent communicator both verbally and written at all levels.
• Advanced level of Microsoft Office 365 Products knowledge i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams.

If you are interested in knowing more about the role please contact Emma or Charlotte at Prescient Group

If you meet the criteria above, send us your CV. We receive a large number of applications so if you do not hear back within 7 days consider your application unsuccessful this time. We will keep a copy of your details on file for future vacancies.

The Prescient Group will be managing your application by the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. If your application is successful we will contact you and manage your personal data in accordance with the guidelines of GDPR.

If your application has been unsuccessful we will delete your application within 6 weeks and all records of your data