Accounts Assistant

Shelbourne Motors; Portadown; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holidays

Free employer car parking

Employer Pension Contributions

Preferential vehicle purchase schemes

Job summary

Shelbourne Motors in Portadown is seeking an Accounts Assistant to support its finance function. This role involves credit control management, reconciling ledgers, and general administrative tasks in a flexible working environment.

Ideal candidates should have previous accounts experience, excellent communication and organizational skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The company values flexibility in hours to attract the best talent.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant role.
• Ability to process information accurately and efficiently.
• Daily maintenance of Sales ledger and banking transactions.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Packages in particular Excel.

Responsibilities

• Support the smooth running of the finance function.
• Manage credit control for Sales & Purchases.
• Reconcile nominal ledgers and collate invoices.
• Banking including reconciliations and cash management.
• General administrative duties such as mail sorting.

Skills

Accounts experience

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Computer literacy

Microsoft Excel

Education

Relevant qualification (e.g., IATI)

Tools

Accounts IT system

Keyloop system

Job description

Shelbourne Motors is one of Northern Ireland’s most progressive and award-winning automotive groups. Operating across two state-of-the-art locations, we proudly represent Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Renault, Dacia and Maxus, alongside our AutoSelect used car supermarkets and our expanding Fleet (fleet4u) and Rental (SVRgo) divisions.

In recent years, Shelbourne Motors has undergone a major period of transformation and recognition.

Most recently, we were proudly awarded:

• Dealer Group of the Year 2024 & 2025
• EV Dealer of the Year 2025
• Best Marketing Campaign 2025
• Business Eye – Northern Ireland’s Fastest Growing Family Business
• AM Awards – Highly Commended: Best Marketing Strategy

Due to continued growth and expansion, we are looking to recruit an additional Accounts Assistant to grow our exisiting Accounts Team. The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting the finance function and helping drive operational excellencee. We are fully flexible on start and finish times, hours and days per week to attract the very best candidate for this role.

Location: Portadown premises. On-site working.

Hours: Flexibility on hours of work, start and finish times and days per week

The Role

The Accounts Assistant role supports the smooth running of the finance function. The job holder will be an essential part of a team providing administrative support to Senior Accounts.

Daily duties will involve credit control management for Sales & Purchases, reconciling nominal ledgers, collating & logging all invoices onto the accounts IT system to ensure prompt payment, banking including bank reconciliations, lodgements, receipt and management of all cash along with general administrative duties such as opening, sorting & distributing of post.

THE PERSON

The essential criteria includes:

• Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant role
• Ability to process information accurately and efficiently
• Daily maintenance of Sales ledger and banking transactions
• Reconciling nominal ledgers with accurate detail weekly.
• Finalise nominal ledgers by 10th month to allow for Group Balance Sheet Review.
• Carry out monthly payments through system
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Computer Literacy
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Packages in particular Excel
• Previous working experience of an Accounts computerised system

Preference will be given to those applicants holding or working towards a relevant qualification, ideally IATI qualified, previous experience in a similar role within the automotive industry and working knowledge of the Keyloop computerised system.

Shelbourne Motors Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Ref: AA.2026.49

Working Hours Monday - Thursday - 8.30am - 5.30pm and Friday 8.30am - 3pm(40 hours per week) Will consider reduced hours.

Salary Competitive, depending on experience

• Benefits 30 days holidays increasing with length of service
• Free employer car parking
• Employer Pension Contributions
• Staff preferential vehicle purchase schemes

Shelbourne Motors Limited trading as Shelbourne Motors Portadown, Shelbourne Motors Nissan, Shelbourne Motors Newry, and Fleet4u is an Appointed Representative of Automotive Compliance Ltd, who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA No 497010). Automotive Compliance Ltd’s permissions as a Principal Firm allows Shelbourne Motors Ltd to act as a credit broker, not as a lender, for the introduction to a limited number of lenders and to act as an agent on behalf of the insurer for insurance distribution activities only.

We are a credit broker and not a lender. We can introduce you to a carefully selected panel of lenders, which includes manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent. We act on behalf of the lender for this introduction and not as your agent. We are not impartial, and we are not an independent financial advisor. Our approach is to introduce you first to the manufacturer lender linked directly to the particular franchise you are purchasing your vehicle from, who are usually able to offer the best available package for you, taking into account both interest rates and other contributions. If they are unable to make you an offer of finance, we then seek to introduce you to whichever of the other lenders on our panel is able to make the next most suitable offer of finance for you. Our aim is to secure a suitable finance agreement for you that enables you to achieve your financial objectives. If you purchase a vehicle, in the majority of cases, we will receive a commission from your lender for introducing you to them which is either a fixed fee, or a fixed percentage of the amount that you borrow. This may be linked to the vehicle model you purchase. Different lenders pay different commissions for such introductions, and manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent may also provide preferential rates to us for the funding of our vehicle stock and also provide financial support for our training and marketing. But any such amounts they and other lenders pay us will not affect the amounts you pay under your finance agreement; however, you will be contributing towards the commission paid to us with the interest collected on your repayments. Before we propose you to a potential lender, we will inform you of the likely amount of commission we will receive and seek your consent to receive this commission. The exact amount of commission that we will receive will be confirmed prior to you signing your finance agreement.All finance applications are subject to status, terms and conditions apply, UK residents only, 18s or over. Guarantees may be required

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