Accounts Assistant

CMA Recruitment Group; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant for a business in Southampton. This role involves managing the payables function, invoice processing, and month-end reconciliations. Strong payables experience and excellent Excel skills are essential. The position offers hybrid working with one day a week from home and numerous benefits, including on-site parking and a contributory pension scheme.

Benefits

On-site parking

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Strong payables experience through to reconciliations and payment runs.
• Strong Excel skills with ability to extract data from multiple systems for analysis.
• Self-sufficient and able to work using own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payables function including reconciliations.
• Administer weekly wages using timesheet system.
• Process journals and reconcile control accounts.

Skills

Strong payables experience

Strong Excel skills

Self-sufficient and able to work independently

Job description

CMA Recruitment Group is currently recruiting an experienced Accounts Assistant to join a long established and very successful business in Southampton due to continued growth of the business.

Reporting into the Finance Director, you will support with the end-to-end payables function through to payment runs and supplier statement reconciliations alongside other aspects of the day to day finance function, making this a really varied and interesting role with lots of scope to develop within the role. This role will offer hybrid working with one day per week working from home subject to a qualifying period.

What will the Accounts Assistant role involve?

• Purchase Ledger.
• invoice processing through purchase order system, checking for correct coding.
• Identify accruals at month end.
• Manage suppliers and payments.
• Weekly wages administration timesheet system.
• Petty Cash and company credit card processing and reconciliations.
• Month End processes, process journals and reconcile control accounts.
• Reporting weekly and monthly extracting data from systems and analysing on Excel.
• Support during audits.

Suitable Candidate for the Accounts Assistant vacancy:

• Strong payables experience required through to reconciliations and payment runs would be desirable.
• Strong Excel skills are essential with ability to extract data from multiple systems for data analysis and reporting purposes.
• Self-sufficient and able to work using own initiative.

Additional benefits and information for the role of Accounts Assistant:

• On-site parking.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 25 days holiday plus BH s.

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