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Job Title: Transactional Accounts Assistant / Accounts Assistant
Location: Aylesbury, Didcot, Wallingford, Reading, High Wycombe, Oxford, Bicester
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 + Benefits + Hybrid working
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Evolve Recruitment are seeking to recruit a proactive and dedicated Transactional Accounts Assistant to join a clients growing team. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the finance team in a high-growth organisation and will be responsible for participating in the team's day-to-day processes. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering accounting information within a high-performance culture. The business promotes a casual working environment and promotes team and individual growth. Our client operates across multiple geographical locations, and therefore, communications across various time zones will be required. To be successful in the role you will also need a high degree of personal initiative and the ability to interact with non-financial managers and staff at all levels. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced accounts administrator to progress and begin a career with the Company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Match supplier invoices to purchase orders/goods received documentation and ensure they are appropriately authorised and booked into the accounting system
- Prepare supplier payments for authorisation and subsequent processing in line with the group timetable
- Identify bounced payments, process new payments and ensure all systems are updated accordingly.
- Review the pending negative settlements report and ensure bank redirections are implemented accordingly.
- Identify overdue negative settlements and follow processes to ensure this debt is collected in a timely manner, ensure all systems are updated accordingly.
- Post and allocate supplier payments (including Direct Debits), reconciling creditor accounts against statements regularly
- Resolve any discrepancies and deal with supplier queries
- Carry out sales invoicing in line with group timetable and debtor account reconciliations, using a mixture of manual processing and uploads
- Prepare daily customer settlements via online banking for authorisation
- Post and allocate cash received
- Reconcile bank accounts in multiple currencies
- Review aged debt report daily to identify overdue debt and chase debt as necessary
- Help to facilitate the resolution of customer queries with the appropriate internal staff to ensure payment is received
- Prepare cash and aged debtor reports. To distribute accurate reports on time as required
- Reconcile net settlement payments in client-designated accounts and organise cash transfers as appropriate
- Manage Ticketing system queries Monitor and contest chargebacks and disputes relating to client monies through acquirer portals
- Review transaction variance reports with support from the Compliance Manager
- Support the management accountant with transaction-based reconciliations weekly
- Update Excel-based reconciliation/support packs
- Implement improvements to existing processes/systems as required
- Undertake ad-hoc and other finance duties as required. Such as financial modelling and scenario planning (e.g. pricing and commissions)
- Create good working relationships with key team members (finance and business)
- Complete accurate, timely and thorough handovers to the management accountants at month-end
- Contribute to the success of the overall corporate strategy
Skills & Experience:
- AAT qualification or similar would be advantageous
- Previous experience in an accounts assistant/administrator role would be advantageous
- Commercial acumen and financial analysis skills and financial modelling skills.
- Excellent IT skills, including a high level of proficiency in Excel
- Experience with Microsoft Great Plains software would be an advantage
- Previous experience within credit control would be beneficial
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
Qualities
- Highly organised and methodical
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Solution-focused, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
- Persistent and resilient under pressure
- Accurate, with high attention to detail
- Good team player, yet willing to take personal responsibility for issues
- Self-motivated, resourceful, and keen to learn and share knowledge
- Flexible and hardworking approach.
You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience required for this role, then please apply to Evolve Recruitment, Kingston upon Thames for more information.Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
