Accounts Assistant

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Bradford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Sewell Wallis is seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant in Bradford to enhance their finance team. Responsibilities include managing invoices, resolving queries, and ensuring accuracy while working across various entities. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills and a background in finance, ready to contribute to a personable finance team.

Benefits

Free on-site parking

Opportunities for study support

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-volume input role.
• Knowledge of financial audit rules advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage, process, and resolve invoice queries.
• Act as the first point of contact for vendors.
• Reconcile statements and investigate discrepancies.

Skills

Accuracy

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Microsoft Excel

Education

2+ years of Accounts Payable/accounting/finance experience

Job description

Sewell Wallis is currently working with a rapidly growing company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, that is looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant to join their finance team.

This Accounts Assistant role would be perfect for someone wanting to develop their skills within Accounts and work with an experienced finance team.

What will you be doing?

• Managing, processing and resolving invoice queries.
• Acting as the first point of contact to vendors for questions, support and issues around invoicing and payment inquiries.
• Manage invoices, including monitoring the invoice approval queues and working with Finance for coding on invoices that get sent manually.
• Working across multiple entities and currencies to process large volumes of invoices with accuracy.
• Reconciling statements and investigating any discrepancies, through to resolution.
• As an Accounts Assistant, you will be working on reducing debit balances and cleansing accounts to keep the ledgers current and maintained
• Maintain & support accounting and accounting control procedures.

What skills are we looking for?

• 2+ years of Accounts Payable/accounting/finance experience in a general office environment, demonstrating a general knowledge of accounting systems.
• Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
• Experience working in a high-volume input role.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of working within finance and audit rules and regulations is highly advantageous.

What's on offer?

• Free on-site parking
• Opportunity to join an industry leader
• Join a warm and personable finance team
• Opportunities for study support.

For more information, contact Suliman or apply below.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.