Accounts Assistant

Sewell Moorhouse Recruitment; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Accounts Assistant for a Treasury position in Stockport. This full-time role involves bank reconciliations, cash management, and requires expertise in numerical data. Ideal candidates will have experience in a finance role and proficient Excel skills. The company offers hybrid working, flexible hours, and various benefits including a discretionary bonus scheme.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Discretionary bonus scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

On-site parking

Qualifications

• Experience within a Finance/Accounts or Treasury role with experience in cash management.
• Treasury management experience is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in Excel (v look ups & pivot tables).

Responsibilities

• Manage a high volume of bank reconciliations across several bank accounts.
• Weekly flash reporting of cash balances.
• Input payments into online banking platforms.

Skills

Financial data analysis

Cash management

Numerical data handling

Excel proficiency

Job description

Overview

Sewell Wallis are currently working with market leading business based in Stockport, Greater Manchester who are looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their Treasury department on a full-time permanent basis. This is a great opportunity to add value within a thriving business that consistently endeavours to but its people first.

The business is currently going through a really exciting period of growth, so this is a great time to join the team and play a key part in ongoing positive change as a Accounts Assistant specialising in Treasury and Bank Reconciliations. For anyone with a background in transactional finance or administration with a focus on numerical data, cash management and banking this is one not to be missed.

Responsibilities

• Dealing with a high volume of bank reconciliations across several hundred bank accounts (and growing), supported by the Senior Treasury Administrator and assistant accountants.
• Weekly flash reporting of cash balances.
• Inputting payments into online banking platforms and finance systems.
• Preparing internal cash sweeps within finance system.
• Assisting with cash balance reviews and money market deposits to maximise returns on surplus cash.
• Opening and closing of bank accounts and managing all related documentation.
• Assist with bank KYC, mandate updates and user administration.
• Monthly external cash reporting and movement analysis.
• Assisting the Senior Treasury Administrator and corporate accounting team with ad hoc bank postings.

Qualifications

• Experience within a Finance/Accounts or Treasury role with experience in cash management and banking.
• Treasury management experience is highly desirable.
• The ability to deal with high volumes of numerical data.
• Proficiency in Excel (v look ups & pivot tables).
• Excellent data entry and organisational skills.

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Flexible hours
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Enhanced pension contributions
• On-site parking

Apply below to avoid missing out, or contact Eleanor Kirk for more details.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.