Finance Assistant

Trial Balance; Newquay; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting seeks a Finance Assistant for an award-winning hospitality business in Newquay. This role involves a variety of finance-related duties, from accounts payable management to assisting with financial reporting. Ideal candidates will have substantial finance experience and may be AAT qualified or QBE.

Qualifications

• At least 18 months of general finance experience.
• Experience maintaining an accounts payable function.
• Good all-round IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Matching invoices and maintaining supplier records.
• Handling accruals and prepayments.
• Assisting with month and year-end reporting.

Skills

Accounts payable

Reconciliation

Finance management

IT skills

Education

AAT qualified or qualified by experience (QBE)

Tools

Sage accounting systems

Job description

Trial Balance Consulting have been re-engaged by a long-standing client; an award-winning hospitality business based in Newquay. The business is enjoying a period of sustained growth and as a result are looking to expand their finance team. The company now seeks to recruit an experienced Finance Assistant who will work closely with a highly experienced Financial Controller.

This is a broad role where the successful candidate will enjoy a wide range of duties to include:

- Accounts payable; matching invoices, setting up and maintaining supplier records, weekly payment runs, reconciliation of credit card transactions, creation of purchase ledger invoices

- Accruals and prepayments

- Maintenance of fixed asset register

- Account reconciliations

- Generation of customer statements

- Assisting with aged debtor management

- Assist with month and year end reporting

- Other ad-hoc finance duties as required

For this role we seek an experienced candidate who possesses at least 18 months of general finance experience to include accurate maintenance of an accounts payable function. Candidates may be either part/fully AAT qualified or consider themselves to be QBE. Good all-round IT experience and ideally (though not essentially), experience of using Sage based accounting systems required.

For further details and to apply for this interesting opportunity, please contact Steve Roach quoting reference SR8924ASAP.