Accounts Assistant

Experience

• Experience or qualification in finance - Desirable
• Experience using Sage - Desirable
• Goal orientated - Focused on completing tasks to achieve planned objectives
• The ideal candidate must take a proactive approach and use initiative, and be responsible for managing their own workload
• Be an effective communicator at all levels, with strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Be able to work autonomously
• Excel skills

Responsibilities

• Assisting the senior purchase ledger with processing large volumes of invoices and dealing with supplier queries internally and externally
• Setting up new suppliers and customer accounts
• Reconciling statements
• Petty cash and credit card postings and reconciliations
• Completing monthly ledger reconciliations
• When needed, assisting with Credit Control including chasing overdue accounts, allocating payments, maintaining aged debt and credit checking new customers
• Prepare and send statements to customers
• Key involvement in regular audits
• Provide month end reporting
• Bank reconciliations
• Journal postings
• Other ad-hoc duties required

Skills

• Be able to organise yourself and others
• Self-motivation
• Computer literate, including all Microsoft programs