Accounts Assistant

Confidential; Rugby; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking an Accounts Assistant to join its finance team in Rugby. This full‑time, permanent role covers transactional accounting across multiple group entities, including sales and purchase ledgers, credit control, and cashbooks.

The role offers variety, hands‑on finance exposure and the chance to influence daily financial operations, with opportunities to use AI tools to streamline processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in accounts or transactional finance.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Good communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Proactive, flexible and resilient approach.
• Intermediate Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain customer accounts; produce sales invoices.
• Investigate and resolve customer queries.
• Review customer accounts and chase outstanding debts.
• Process purchase invoices and credit card receipts.
• Reconcile supplier statements.
• Manage multiple purchase ledger inboxes and respond to invoice queries.
• Set up cashbook payments.
• Maintain cashbooks and weekly bank reconciliations.
• Ensure invoices have VAT and CIS treatment.
• Produce ad hoc project spend reports.
• File and maintain finance documentation.
• Support year-end audit process.
• Provide wider administrative and finance support.

Skills

Accounts experience

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Workload management

Excel skills

Tools

COINS

Sage 50

Xero

Job description

Accounts Assistant

Location: Rugby / DIRFT
Full-time 40 hours per week
Permanent

Macildowie are delighted to be partnering with a growing, privately owned property and development business to recruit an Accounts Assistant into their finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys a varied, hands‑on finance role and wants to join an energetic, fast‑moving and down‑to‑earth business.

Working closely with the Financial Controllers and wider finance team, you'll take responsibility for a broad range of transactional accounting duties across several group companies. The role offers plenty of variety, covering both purchase and sales ledger activity alongside credit control, cashbooks, reconciliations and general finance support.

The Role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Setting up and maintaining customer accounts and producing sales invoices
• Investigating and resolving customer queries
• Reviewing customer accounts and chasing outstanding debts
• Processing purchase invoices and credit card receipts
• Reconciling supplier statements
• Managing multiple purchase ledger inboxes and responding to invoice queries
• Setting up cashbook payments
• Maintaining cashbooks and completing weekly bank reconciliations
• Ensuring invoices receive the correct VAT and CIS treatment
• Producing ad hoc project spend reports
• Filing and maintaining finance documentation
• Supporting the year-end audit process
• Providing wider administrative and finance support as required

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is practical, enthusiastic and comfortable rolling their sleeves up as part of a close-knit team.

You’ll ideally have:

• Previous experience within an accounts or transactional finance role
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communication and relationship-building skills
• The ability to manage your own workload and work to deadlines
• Confidence balancing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• A proactive, flexible and resilient approach
• Intermediate Excel skills

Experience using COINS, Sage 50 and/or Xero would be advantageous, although it isn’t essential.

The business is also forward‑thinking in its approach to technology, so an interest in using AI tools such as ChatGPT to improve or automate accounting processes would be particularly welcome.