Accounts Assistant - Temporary
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Leicestershire
- Salary
- 12.00 - 15.00 GBP Hourly
- Posted
- 25 Jul 2022
- Closes
- 22 Aug 2022
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Assistant Accountant
Salary- GBP12-GBP15ph
Hours-9-5:30 (30 min lunch break)
Full-time
Longevity-Permanent
The Opportunity
An established company based in Leicester is looking for a Assistant Accountant to assist the Finance Manager in the day to day accounts. This is ideally for a candidate who is qualified by experience or looking to develop their experience by broadening their skills set and studying for further qualifications as study support can be considered.
The Role
As the Assistant Accountant, you will be supporting the Finance Manager across Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger and other day to day requirements.
The successful candidate will have previous experience working in a similar role and have excellent organisational skills. Being able to work efficiently and prioritise your workload in a busy and demanding environment is key. You will also need to be a great communicator, as you will be working closely with both the operations and sales department, as well as the finance team. A great telephone manner is desired, as you will be speaking with suppliers when dealing with purchases and invoicing and you also will be representing the company, taking payments from our customers and dealing with payment related enquiries.
Duties
Duties and responsibilities include:
Production of daily MI (KPIs, Sales, Discounting) and assisting the Finance Manager with development of reporting.
Assisting with preparation of the month end accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
Daily bank reconciliation.
Allocating daily payments to orders.
Generating and issuing Sales Invoices/ Credit notes to customers.
Emailing and calling clients to collect outstanding payments.
Processing refunds.
Raising and sending POs to Suppliers.
Processing, matching and posting purchase invoices.
Checking Statements.
Answering incoming calls.
Sorting daily post.
Managing and solving customer queries.
Reconcile credit card against receipts / expenses from monthly statements and source any missing receipts.
Reconcile petty cash against receipts / expenses at month-end.
Processing supplier payments.
Generating remittances.
Quarterly VAT return.
Supporting the Finance Manager in the annual audit.
General support to Finance team when necessary.
Skills and personal characteristics
Experience in a similar role.
Excellent communication skills.
Highly organized, prioritizing workload to meet deadlines.
Great attention to detail and the ability to get things right first time.
Computer literate with a good knowledge of MS Office.
Experience of CRM & ERP systems (desirable but not essential as training will be given).
Ambitious and curious, able to develop and communicate their own ideas.
Robust, polite and professional at all times.
Wants a career not just a job.
Tech savvy and keen to introduce and support new ways of working.
Easily adapts to new processes and tasks.
Ability to work alone and as part of a team
Salary- GBP12-GBP15ph
Hours-9-5:30 (30 min lunch break)
Full-time
Longevity-Permanent
The Opportunity
An established company based in Leicester is looking for a Assistant Accountant to assist the Finance Manager in the day to day accounts. This is ideally for a candidate who is qualified by experience or looking to develop their experience by broadening their skills set and studying for further qualifications as study support can be considered.
The Role
As the Assistant Accountant, you will be supporting the Finance Manager across Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger and other day to day requirements.
The successful candidate will have previous experience working in a similar role and have excellent organisational skills. Being able to work efficiently and prioritise your workload in a busy and demanding environment is key. You will also need to be a great communicator, as you will be working closely with both the operations and sales department, as well as the finance team. A great telephone manner is desired, as you will be speaking with suppliers when dealing with purchases and invoicing and you also will be representing the company, taking payments from our customers and dealing with payment related enquiries.
Duties
Duties and responsibilities include:
Production of daily MI (KPIs, Sales, Discounting) and assisting the Finance Manager with development of reporting.
Assisting with preparation of the month end accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
Daily bank reconciliation.
Allocating daily payments to orders.
Generating and issuing Sales Invoices/ Credit notes to customers.
Emailing and calling clients to collect outstanding payments.
Processing refunds.
Raising and sending POs to Suppliers.
Processing, matching and posting purchase invoices.
Checking Statements.
Answering incoming calls.
Sorting daily post.
Managing and solving customer queries.
Reconcile credit card against receipts / expenses from monthly statements and source any missing receipts.
Reconcile petty cash against receipts / expenses at month-end.
Processing supplier payments.
Generating remittances.
Quarterly VAT return.
Supporting the Finance Manager in the annual audit.
General support to Finance team when necessary.
Skills and personal characteristics
Experience in a similar role.
Excellent communication skills.
Highly organized, prioritizing workload to meet deadlines.
Great attention to detail and the ability to get things right first time.
Computer literate with a good knowledge of MS Office.
Experience of CRM & ERP systems (desirable but not essential as training will be given).
Ambitious and curious, able to develop and communicate their own ideas.
Robust, polite and professional at all times.
Wants a career not just a job.
Tech savvy and keen to introduce and support new ways of working.
Easily adapts to new processes and tasks.
Ability to work alone and as part of a team