Accounts Assistant

ERS Recruiting Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking an Accounts Assistant for vibrant and structured office environment. The successful candidate will manage purchase and sales ledgers, reconcile accounts, and process invoices across multiple companies. Ideal for those with experience in finance who can work both independently and as part of a team. Salary circa £30,000 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with purchase and sales ledgers, adept at reconciliation.
• Proactive attitude in resolving queries and managing accounts.
• Ability to work under pressure in a structured office environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage purchase ledger and reconciliation of supplier statements.
• Resolve ledger queries with suppliers and internally.
• Process high volume of invoices for multiple companies.
• Supervise reconciliation and review aged creditor reports.
• Prepare monthly cash-flow and process BACS runs.

Skills

Purchase ledger management

Sales ledger management

Reconciliation skills

Communication skills

Job description

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT - Amazing career development opportunity in a fantastic company

BOREHAMWOOD

SALARY CIRCA 30,000 DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE

Our client is seeking a proactive Accounts Assistant to join their team. This role is ideal for a candidate who thrives in a vibrant and structured office environment and who is adept to purchase ledger, sales ledger and reconciliation and can work within a team.

The successful candidate will work under and alongside the companies Office Manager.

Responsibilities

• Purchase Ledger management including reconciliation of key/large supplier statements, resolving outstanding queries and unallocated cash, chasing unauthorised purchase invoices, updating outstanding copy invoices spreadsheet, and chasing refunds for credit balances on purchase ledger.
• Resolving ledger queries by phone/email with suppliers and inter companies.
• Processing a high volume of supplier invoices across a multi-company group of ledgers.
• Supervise reconciliation of all supplier statements, bi-monthly, and resolve queries.
• Review the reconciliation of aged creditor reports for anomalies.
• Managing divisional subcontractor accounts and ensuring that payment certificates are processed on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Issuing sales invoices to the main contractor and inter companies, and ensuring that the funds are credited as per the credit terms.
• Month-end routines for Purchase Ledger, including ensuring the list of balances reconciled to the control accounts, and clearing down debit balances.
• Month-end close procedures for Purchase Ledger.
• Preparing monthly cash-flow.
• Preparing and processing regular BACS runs in accordance with payment terms and ensure that authorisation procedures are followed at all times.
• Managing finance query inbox and contacting suppliers to assist in the resolution of outstanding queries. Follow up internal approvals on the invoice workflow system.
• Processing staff expenses and ensuring that they are approved by the line managers in timely manner.
• Set up and verifying new supplier accounts.
• Monitoring multiple financial mailboxes.

Should you be interested in this excellent Accounts Assistant role, please submit your CV to Anna Maguire.

Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, occasionally due to the high volume of applications this cannot always be possible and we are only able to contact shortlisted candidates. We will keep your details on file and may contact you with future opportunities.