Accounts Assistant

Connections The Recruitment Specialists; Ashley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Connections The Recruitment Specialists is seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant for a busy SME in the UK. The role covers Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, AP, AR, and Credit Control, with multi-currency transactions and Excel-based analysis.

You will support reconciliations, reporting and ad-hoc finance duties, using Sage 50 daily. The position offers variety in a fast-paced SME finance function and opportunities to grow within the team.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in a transactional Accounts Assistant/Finance Assistant role.

Responsibilities

• Looking after the Purchase and Sales Ledgers, including multi-currency transactions
• Managing the AP ledger and keeping supplier accounts accurate and up to date
• Supporting Credit Control and keeping on top of outstanding payments
• Posting and reconciling company credit cards and expenses
• Getting involved with the company's invoice factoring facility
• Posting transactions and carrying out regular reconciliations
• Investigating discrepancies and figuring out where things have gone slightly off-piste
• Using Sage 50 as part of day-to-day finance work
• Using Excel to manage and analyse information, including VLOOKUPs and SUMIFs
• Helping with reporting and those inevitable "can you just" finance jobs that crop up
• Working across multiple priorities and keeping things moving in a fast-paced SME

Skills

Purchase Ledger

Sales Ledger

Credit Control

Reconciliations

Multi-currency

Invoice factoring

AP

AR

Detail-oriented

Tools

Sage 50

Excel

Job description

We?re looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant to join a busy SME where no two days are quite the same.

This isn?t a role where you?ll be stuck in one corner of the finance function doing the same thing day in, day out. We?re looking for someone who enjoys getting stuck into the detail, knows their way around a ledger and can spot when something doesn't quite add up.

You?ll have a good mix of Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Credit Control, reconciliations and general finance duties, with plenty of opportunity to get involved across the wider business.

What you'll be doing

• Looking after the Purchase and Sales Ledgers, including multi-currency transactions
• Managing the AP ledger and keeping supplier accounts accurate and up to date
• Supporting Credit Control and keeping on top of outstanding payments
• Posting and reconciling company credit cards and expenses
• Getting involved with the company's invoice factoring facility
• Posting transactions and carrying out regular reconciliations
• Investigating discrepancies and figuring out where things have gone slightly off-piste
• Using Sage 50 as part of your day-to-day finance work
• Using Excel to manage and analyse information, including VLOOKUPs and SUMIFs
• Helping with reporting and those inevitable "can you just " finance jobs that crop up
• Working across multiple priorities and keeping things moving in a fast-paced SME

What we're looking for

You don't need to be a qualified accountant. In fact, we're much more interested in what you've actually done than what letters you've got after your name.

You'll ideally have:

• Solid experience in a transactional Accounts Assistant / Finance Assistant role
• Good knowledge of AP, AR and Credit Control
• Strong Sage 50 experience
• Good Excel skills
• Experience with reconciliations and expenses
• Ideally, exposure to multi-currency
• Ideally, some experience with invoice factoring
• A good eye for detail and the ability to spot when something doesn't look right
• A practical, problem-solving mindset
• The resilience to work in a busy SME where priorities can change
• The ability to get on with things without needing someone checking over your shoulder every five minutes

The person we're looking for

We're after someone who is practical, switched-on and thorough.

Someone who can look at a reconciliation and think "that's not right" rather than simply accepting what is in front of them.

You?ll need to be comfortable getting stuck into the detail but also happy to jump onto something completely different when the business needs it.

If you're an experienced Accounts Assistant who likes variety, enjoys solving problems and wants to be part of a busy SME finance function, we'd like to hear from you.