Assistant Accountant

Your Recruitment Partner Ltd.; Manchester; Presencial; GBP 30 000 - 35 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Your Recruitment Partner Ltd. in South Manchester is seeking a finance assistant on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity. The role will be hands-on and split 50/50 between accounts payable and month-end support.

Key duties include processing supplier invoices and credits, maintaining the purchase ledger, reconciling statements, assisting with month-end journals and management accounts, payroll inputs, and preparing schedules for review.

Qualificações

• Previous experience supporting month end accounting is a bonus.
• Confident Excel skills and experience using a finance/ERP system.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to prioritise and meet deadlines, and a professional approach to confidential information.
• Comfortable switching between high-volume transactional work and more analytical accounting tasks.

Responsabilidades

• Process supplier invoices and credit notes accurately and promptly, including coding, matching to purchase orders and checking authorisation.
• Maintain the purchase ledger, supplier accounts and relevant records, ensuring transactions are correctly recorded.
• Reconcile supplier statements, investigate discrepancies and resolve outstanding items with suppliers and internal colleagues.
• Prepare supplier payment runs and supporting schedules for review and approval in accordance with company controls.
• Respond to supplier and internal purchase ledger queries, including missing invoices, pricing differences and payment enquiries.
• Monitor aged creditors and assist with purchase ledger month-end cut-off, accrual information and control account reconciliations.
• Assist with the monthly management accounts preparation and delivery of accurate reporting to agreed deadlines.

Conhecimentos

Excel skills

Attention to detail

Deadline oriented

Ferramentas

Finance ERP system

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Location – South Manchester

Salary – £30,000-35,000

About the company:

A well-established business with a great finance team. 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity, in a hands on role that will be split 50/50 between accounts payable and month end support.

Responsibilities include:

• Process supplier invoices and credit notes accurately and promptly, including coding, matching to purchase orders and checking authorisation.
• Maintain the purchase ledger, supplier accounts and relevant records, ensuring transactions are correctly recorded.
• Reconcile supplier statements, investigate discrepancies and resolve outstanding items with suppliers and internal colleagues.
• Prepare supplier payment runs and supporting schedules for review and approval in accordance with company controls.
• Respond to supplier and internal purchase ledger queries, including missing invoices, pricing differences and payment enquiries.
• Monitor aged creditors and assist with purchase ledger month-end cut-off, accrual information and control account reconciliations.
• Expense processing and other routine transactional finance tasks when needed.
• Assist with the monthly management accounts preparation and delivery of accurate reporting to agreed deadlines.
• Prepare and post journals, including accruals, prepayments and other month-end adjustments, subject to appropriate review.
• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations and investigate reconciling items.
• Assist with nominal ledger reviews, profit and loss variance analysis and explanations of significant movements.
• Support the preparation of management information, cost-centre reporting and ad hoc financial analysis.
• Assist with collecting, checking and collating payroll inputs such as timesheets, overtime, absences and authorised changes.
• Enter or prepare payroll data for processing in the company's payroll system, under the direction of the payroll owner.
• Check payroll input reports and supporting schedules for completeness and accuracy, flagging discrepancies before payroll is finalised.

Skills/Qualifications required:

• Previous experience supporting month end accounting a bonus, but not required.
• Confident Excel skills and experience using a finance/ERP system.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to prioritise and meet deadlines, and a professional approach to confidential information.
• Comfortable switching between high-volume transactional work and more analytical accounting tasks.