Accounts Assistant (Sales Ledger)

Axon Moore; Preston; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Preston is seeking an Accounts Assistant (Sales Ledger) to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have accounts receivable experience and strong organizational skills. Responsibilities include daily banking, credit control support, and cash management. The role offers a great working culture and excellent benefits, including generous annual leave and a company pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days' annual leave + bank holidays

Birthday off

Company pension scheme

Death in Service policy

Childcare voucher scheme

Incentives and rewards

Free tickets to local events

Staff social events

Free on-site parking

Qualifications

• 1-2 years' experience in a similar role.
• Experience with complex reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Daily banking and posting bank journals.
• Support with credit control for sales accounts.
• Oversee cash invoice ledgers for timely payments.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Proactivity

IT Skills

MS Excel

Job description

Accounts Assistant (Sales Ledger) | £25,000 - £28,000 | Preston | Great working culture | Excellent benefits

Axon Moore are pleased to be working alongside a highly-valued client as they look to recruit an ambitious and personable Sales Ledger Clerk to their dynamic team. This role is well suited to an enthusiastic and hard-working individual with good accounts receivable / credit control experience and an ability to build rapport across departments whilst working in an efficient and timely manner.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Daily banking, including allocating payment, reconciling accounts and posting bank journals
• Support with credit control for credit sales accounts
• Oversee and monitor cash invoice ledgers to ensure timely payment allocations and correction of any invoicing errors
• Daily payments and intercompany account transfers
• Ownership for petty cash
• Processing employee expense claims
• Bank reconciliations
• Assist with month-end control account reconciliations
• Processing refunds
• Resolving queries on customer accounts
• Holiday and sickness cover for Purchase Ledger
• Other ad-hoc duties

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 1-2 years' experience within a similar role
• Experience of complex reconciliations
• Able to develop and maintain good internal and external working relationships
• Able to efficiently manage a high-volume workload
• Good IT and MS Excel skills
• Proactive, self-motivated and organised
• Able to work efficiently both independently and collaboratively

Benefits:

• 9am - 6pm w/ 1 hour lunch
• 25 days' annual leave + bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Discounts
• Company pension scheme
• Death in Service policy
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Incentives and rewards
• Free tickets to local and national events
• Staff social events
• Free on-site parking

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Jack Moss at [e-mail] or see our website at www.axonmoore.com