Accounts Assistant

Workwell Outsourcing; Otley; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave, increasing with

Pension

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Awards

Long Service Recognition

Spectrum Life

Annual Pay Review

Employee Referral Scheme

Job summary

Workwell Outsourcing in Otley, United Kingdom, is seeking an Accounts Assistant to support payroll‑related finance processes, billing, reconciliations and ledger activities. The role offers hybrid working and a clear path to contribute to accurate financial records.

The successful candidate will handle weekly payroll tasks, major reconciliations, and billing cycles while ensuring precise data entry and proactive problem solving within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Payroll experience and related reconciliations.
• Experience with high-volume transactional finance.
• Excel expertise with formulas, lookups, SUMIFs, and pivots.
• Strong attention to detail and proactive problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Support weekly payroll processes, including BACS, wage and sales imports, margin reconciliations and funding information.
• Complete payroll and finance reconciliations, including PAYE, VAT, holiday pay, advances and control accounts.
• Process Sage transactions, including allocations, reallocations, refunds and supplier account matching.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences, suspense items and operational finance queries.
• Support weekly and monthly finance controls, checklists and procedures.
• Raise customer invoices across various platforms and complete monthly billing cycles.
• Credit control duties.
• Post and reconcile high-volume bank transactions, ensuring payments are accurately allocated.
• Respond to customer billing queries professionally and clearly.

Skills

Payroll knowledge

Excel

Attention to detail

Prioritization

Communication

Tools

Sage 50

Xero

Sage Accounting

Job description

Reporting to: Financial Controller

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to support our Finance function.

This is a varied, hands‑on role covering payroll‑related finance processes, billing, reconciliations, banking, credit control and ledger activities. You’ll help to maintain accurate financial records, resolve discrepancies and ensure key finance processes are completed accurately and on time.

What You’ll Be Doing

Operational Finance

• Support weekly payroll processes, including BACS, wage and sales imports, margin reconciliations and funding information.
• Complete payroll and finance reconciliations, including PAYE, VAT, holiday pay, advances and associated control accounts.
• Process Sage transactions, including allocations, reallocations, refunds and supplier account matching.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences, suspense items and operational finance queries.
• Support weekly and monthly finance controls, checklists and procedures.

Billing & Sales Ledger

• Raise customer invoices across various platforms and complete monthly billing cycles.
• Liaise with internal teams to resolve discrepancies and support accurate revenue recognition.
• Maintain accurate sales ledger records and support related transactional finance activities.
• Credit control duties

Banking and Reconciliations

• Post and reconcile high-volume bank transactions, ensuring payments are accurately allocated.
• Investigate and resolve unreconciled items in collaboration with internal departments.
• Respond to customer billing queries professionally and clearly.

We’d love to Hear from Someone That

• Has strong practical payroll experience and a good understanding of payroll processes and associated finance reconciliations.
• Brings experience in high-volume transactional finance, including billing, reconciliations and ledger management.
• Has experience investigating and resolving financial discrepancies.
• Is proficient in Excel, including formulas, lookups, SUMIFs and pivot tables.
• Has excellent attention to detail and a proactive, solution-focused approach.
• Communicates confidently and professionally across teams.
• Can manage competing priorities
• Ideally has experience working across multiple entities or within a group structure.
• Has working knowledge of systems such as Sage 50, Xero or Sage Accounting.
• Is available to support outside normal office hours (within reason) on occasion, potentially from home.
• Is comfortable in a fast-paced working environment.

What’s Next?

Our recruitment team will be in touch for an initial screening call if your application is shortlisted. Please note that due to high application volumes, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually.

What We Can Offer You

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service, plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Awards
• Long Service Recognition
• Spectrum Life
• Annual Pay Review
• Employee Referral Scheme

Brand: Workwell Outsourcing

Territory: EMEA

Location: Otley, United Kingdom

Salary: £27,000 - £32,000

Workplace: Hybrid

Experience: Mid

Hours: Mon – Fri