Accounts Assistant

Ashdown Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A highly successful company is seeking an Accounts Assistant to join its finance team in a hybrid role. You will work from home 2 days per week and 3 days in the office, handling a broad range of transactional finance duties to support business decision-making.

Responsibilities include processing invoices, supplier payments, VAT returns, and maintaining accurate records, with opportunities to gain experience in management accounts and month-end processes.

Qualifications

• Must be pursuing AAT, CIMA or ACCA qualifications; study support will be provided.
• Experience with processing purchase invoices and supplier payments, reviewing purchase ledger, and VAT returns.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase invoices and supplier payments.
• Review the purchase ledger and reconcile company credit cards.
• Process foreign supplier payments and liaise with suppliers to resolve queries.
• Support VAT returns and maintain accurate financial records.
• Assist with month-end and year-end close processes including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Participate in budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow projections with variance analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Education

Pursuing accounting qualifications (AAT/CIMA/ACCA)

Job description

A highly successful company is looking for an accomplished Accounts Assistant to join its team. Please note this role is hybrid - you'll work from home 2 days per week with 3 days in the office.

You'll have a broad range of transactional finance duties. These will include processing purchase invoices and supplier payments, reviewing the purchase ledger, preparing monthly creditor analysis, reconciling company credit cards and processing foreign supplier payments. You'll also liaise with suppliers to resolve queries, support VAT returns and maintain accurate financial records.

Working as part of the finance team, you'll play an important role in providing accurate, timely and meaningful financial information to support business decision-making. Over time you will gain experience with management accounts, including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations, while supporting month-end and year-end close processes.

You'll also be involved in budgeting, forecasting, cash flow projections and variance analysis, helping to identify trends and investigate differences between actual and budgeted performance. This will involve working with colleagues across the organisation and explaining financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

In order to be suitable for this role you must be a personable finance professional with great analytical skills. It is expected that you will be pursuing AAT, CIMA or ACCA qualifications and study support will be provided. You'll be comfortable working independently while also being a collaborative team player, with the confidence to build effective relationships across the wider organisation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated finance professional to broaden their experience, develop their management accounting skills and build a strong foundation for a successful long-term career in finance.