Senior Accounts Assistant

Oldham, Greater Manchester

Monday - Friday

40hrs

Benefits

· Pension Scheme

· 25+8 Annual Leave

· Company Bonus Scheme

· Enhanced Maternity & Paternity

Job Summary

Supporting and reporting to the Finance Manager, this role will contribute and support all the day-to-day functions of a busy Finance department and provide support for the completion of monthly and year end accounts, management reporting into UK Leadership & US parent company and support interesting ad-hoc projects / initiatives. This is a varied hands-on role working within a small team, so a can-do attitude and experience of general accounts duties/processing is essential along with a good understanding of management accounting.

Key Responsibilities and Involvements:

· Bank transaction processing inc Reconciliations for multiple currency accounts

· Credit Control management inc liaising with Customer Service, taking a proactive approach to ensure potential issues are resolved in advance of planned despatch

· Sales Ledger including allocating receipts and reconciliations

· Purchase Ledger including Invoice processing, matching to GRN/PO, Statement reconciliation

· Planned Payments and processing

· Expenses management and processing

· Fixed Asset Management inc additions/disposals and monthly depreciation calculations

· Support the Finance Manager with month-end closure inc preparation and processing of Journals for Prepayments/Accruals

· Maintaining schedules to support the Trial Balance

· Assist with year-end statutory audit and tax reporting for US based parent company

· Assist with VAT reporting and reconciliations

· Management Information production

· Ad hoc reporting

Key Skills, Experiences and Attitudes:

· MAAT or qualified by experience

· Experience within a similar role with knowledge and experience of Average/Standard Costing is desirable

· Experience within the Manufacturing sector is desirable

· Ability to use Microsoft Excel inc Pivot Tables and Lookups

· Experience of Microsoft Dynamics Navision is desirable

· Ability to prioritise with keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy

· Experience of working with multiple currency transactions

· Good understanding of VAT

· Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels

Keywords -Bookkeeper, Accountant, AAT, VAT, Finance Assistant, Accounts Analyst, Assistant Management Accountant

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