Accounts Assistant

Foray Motor Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive dealership in Salisbury is seeking an Accounts Assistant to join their expanding Accounts Team. The ideal candidate will have experience with Purchase Ledger and Credit Control, excellent communication skills, and strong Excel knowledge. This role involves ensuring the accuracy of the purchase ledger, completing Bacs runs, and supporting the accounts team as needed. Opportunities for professional development are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in Purchase Ledger, Credit Control, and month end procedures.
• Ability to liaise effectively with financial and non-financial colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to drive performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure group purchase ledger is accurate and timely.
• Complete all Bacs runs and reconciliations on time.
• Support the accounts team as needed.

Skills

Purchase Ledger

Credit control

Strong Excel knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Planning and organisation skills

Interpersonal relationship building

Flexibility

Tools

In-house computer systems

Job description

Overview

Foray Motor Group is the South West's award-winning Ford-only dealer group, with dealerships and service centres in Salisbury, Poole, Yeovil, Taunton, Andover, Shaftesbury, Bridgewater, Dorchester and Southampton. The 9 location group, with an annual turnover in excess of £150m, employs circa 400 people, in a wide variety of job roles, and has excellent opportunities for highly motivated, dedicated and talented people. Whether you’re a salesperson, a vehicle technician or in customer service, we would like to hear from you. And, if you haven’t yet built up experience in these areas, we have apprenticeships and training programmes to help you get settled in. At Foray we place great emphasis on developing our staff to equip you with the right skills and tools to succeed at everything you do.

Position

We are looking to expand our Accounts Team and require an Accounts Assistant to join us working from our head office at Edwards Ford in Salisbury.

Requirements

• Experience of Purchase Ledger, Credit control and month end procedures, excellent communication skills, the ability to liaise with all levels of financial and non-financial colleagues and a strong level of excel knowledge would make you the ideal candidate.
• Ensure Group Purchase ledger is on correctly and in a timely manner.
• Ensuring all Bacs runs and reconciliations are completed on time.
• Support to Credit control.
• Support for the Accounts team if needed.
• Able to use in-house computer systems effectively.
• Drives Own Performance.
• Planning and Organisation Skills.
• Ability to Build Effective Interpersonal Relationships.
• Flexibility.

Other information

Foray Motor Group is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, gender reassignment and gender identity, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Please consider the following when making your application:

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive sufficient volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early
• We are not able to offer sponsorship for people living outside the UK
• If you need any support throughout the application or interview process, please make the a member of our team or the Hiring Manager aware.

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