Accounts Assistant

NPR Recruit; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Accounts Assistant to maintain financial records and assist with credit control. The role requires strong bookkeeping skills and experience in accounts payable. Benefits include a 37.5-hour week, 28 days holiday, pension, and life insurance.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Pension

Life insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in accounts payable.
• Good knowledge of bookkeeping and double-entry accounting.
• Strong credit control credentials with previous experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain purchase and sales ledger accurately.
• Assist with credit control by collecting outstanding debts.
• Match, code, and process purchase invoices.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Double-entry accounting

Credit control

Job description

Our client, an Award-Winning Business, is adding an Accounts Assistant due to their continuous growth.

Accounts Assistant

This role involves accurately maintaining the purchase and sales ledger, with accounts payable experience, to ensure the business's financial performance can be determined efficiently.

Accounts Assistant Benefits:

37.5-hour week, 28 days holiday, pension, life insurance, and more.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Good knowledge of bookkeeping and double-entry accounting.
• Strong credit control credentials with previous experience.
• Assist with credit control by collecting outstanding debts and providing status updates.
• Regular review, control, and reconciliation of the aged creditors reports.
• Match, code, and process all purchase invoices with purchase orders and supporting documentation, then post them onto the accounting system daily.
• Obtain appropriate sign-off authorization within set company timescales.
• Investigate and resolve supplier account queries.
• Liaise with suppliers via telephone or written communication to ensure payments are made according to cash flow forecasts and credit terms.
• Ensure all invoices passed for payment are accurate and fully authorized.
• Update cash books daily.
• Make daily payments for direct debits, standing orders, and other ad hoc payments.
• Reconcile purchase ledger invoices with supplier statements.
• Experience in accounts payable.
• Assist with raising sales invoices for services provided by the company.