Accounts Assistant / Assistant Accountant (+ study)

Hawthorn One; Rochdale; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension

Bonus scheme

Study support toward AAT/CIMA/ACCA

Flexible working

Job summary

Hawthorn One in Rochdale is seeking an Accounts Assistant to support month-end tasks and be responsible for the purchase ledger. You will process invoices (around 500 monthly), reconcile supplier accounts, and assist with GL analysis in a small, close-knit team.

The role offers study support toward AAT/CIMA/ACCA, a bonus scheme, enhanced pension, flexible working and potential to work from home one day per week. Office-based with hybrid options.

Qualifications

• Experience owning month end tasks such as accruals, aged creditors reconciliations and / or balance sheet reconciliations and GL analysis.
• Experience in a purchase ledger or accounts payable role, comfortable with invoice processing.
• Confident managing supplier queries and disputes, with excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrates a genuine team mentality, happy to muck in within a small, family-run business.
• Studying toward, or interested in studying toward, AAT, CIMA or ACCA with study support on offer.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase ledger invoices, around 500 invoices a month, matching orders, goods received and invoices.
• Complete AP close at month end, run aged creditors reconciliation, post accruals, complete balance sheet reconciliations and assist with GL analysis.
• Handle supplier statement reconciliations, daily bank reconciliations, and raising payments to suppliers.
• Work in a team of 4 with the Head of Finance driving ongoing projects and development.

Skills

Purchase ledger

Month end tasks

Attention to detail

Supplier management

Team player

Education

AAT/CIMA/ACCA studies (with study support)

Job description

This manufacturing business is a well-established business with a strong history going back nearly 40 years, built on steady, deliberate growth. It's a good-sized business with over 100 people, supplying large, well-known organisations who expect and require a well-run, reliable operation behind the scenes. Growth has been significant in recent years, and the business continues to invest heavily in its people and facilities, including a brand new, state of the art site. It's a close-knit culture where everyone knows everyone and genuinely mucks in together, with strong family values along with health and safety sitting at the heart of the business

The Accounts Assistant Job

Reporting to the Management Accountant, who's also acting as team leader, this Accounts Assistant job gives you genuine involvement in month end as well as full ownership of purchase ledger processing.

At month end, you'll complete the AP close, run the aged creditors reconciliation, post accruals, complete balance sheet reconciliations and assist with GL analysis, so you're properly contributing to the numbers each month, not just processing invoices.

Day to day, you'll process purchase ledger invoices, around 500 invoices a month, keeping the match between orders, goods received and invoices moving, and chasing down queries with suppliers and the wider business so nothing holds up a payment. You'll also handle supplier statement reconciliations, daily bank reconciliations, and raising payments to suppliers.

You will be working in a team of 4 in total, hence for someone who wants to develop and increase responsibility, there is plenty to get involved in as the business grows. The Head of Finance is strong on developing people and has lots of ongoing projects that they would welcome support on. However, if you are comfortable in your role, and do not want to progress, that is also ok in this position.

The Requirements

• You must have experience owning some month end tasks such as accruals, aged creditors reconciliations and / or balance sheet reconciliations and GL analysis.
• You must have experience in a purchase ledger or accounts payable role, comfortable with invoice processing.
• You must be confident managing supplier queries and disputes, staying on top of them so payments aren't disrupted and have excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Person fit matters just as much as technical experience in this Accounts Assistant job. The team is looking for someone with a genuine team mentality, happy to muck in within a small, family-run business.
• Studying toward, or interested in studying toward, AAT, CIMA or ACCA would be an advantage, with study support on offer.

The Rewards

A salary of circa £34,000 depending on experience. Pension is enhanced and there's a bonus scheme alongside genuine study support toward AAT, CIMA or ACCA if you want it.

Holidays are 22 days + a generous holiday purchase scheme and the company also has a very flexible working policy essentially allowing you to work your hours to suit, along with a half day Friday finish as early as 12pm.

Whilst the role is office based; there is the potential to work from home 1 day a week when you are fully settled in the role and probation passed.