Senior Accounts Assistant

ReQuire Consultancy; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

ReQuire Consultancy seeks a Senior Accounts Assistant in Salisbury to join a small finance team and assume ownership of key accounting tasks. You will work between the Accounts Assistant and Management Accountant, focusing on month-end activities, reconciliations, and improving processes.

The successful candidate will have solid transactional finance experience, be confident with ledgers and reconciliations, and ideally hold an AAT or be progressing towards ACCA/CIMA.

Qualifications

• Built solid all-round accounts experience and comfortable with more than straightforward processing.
• Experience with ledgers, reconciliations and month-end processes.
• AAT qualification or progress towards ACCA/CIMA welcomed; practical accounting knowledge valued.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of sales and purchase ledger activities.
• Prepare and check supplier payment runs.
• Credit control and monitoring of aged debt; bank reconciliations.

Skills

Ledgers & reconciliations

Excel skills

Sage experience

Education

AAT or ACCA/CIMA in progress

Tools

Sage

Excel

Job description

Senior Accounts Assistant | Salisbury | £38k (c) | FT 39 hours per week

Ready to move beyond the day-to-day processing and take the next step in your finance career?

We're recruiting a Senior Accounts Assistant for an established Salisbury business, joining a small and friendly finance team where you'll have plenty of responsibility and the opportunity to broaden your accounting experience.

Sitting between the Accounts Assistant and Management Accountant, this is a great role for someone who already has strong transactional finance experience but now wants more ownership and greater exposure to month end and wider accounting activities.

The opportunity:

You'll work closely with the Management Accountant, taking responsibility for key areas of the accounts function while helping ensure everything runs accurately and on time.

Your role is likely to include:

• Taking ownership of sales and purchase ledger activities
• Preparing and checking supplier payment runs
• Credit control and monitoring aged debt
• Bank and balance sheet reconciliations
• Investigating and resolving account discrepancies
• Posting journals, accruals and prepayments
• Supporting VAT and other financial returns
• Preparing information and schedules for month end
• Assisting with elements of management accounts preparation
• Supporting the Management Accountant with reporting and analysis
• Helping maintain strong financial controls and accurate records
• Supporting the Accounts Assistant and sharing your knowledge when needed
• Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes

About you:

We're looking for someone who has built good all-round accounts experience and is now comfortable doing more than straightforward processing.

You might already be a Senior Accounts Assistant, Assistant Accountant or Finance Officer. Alternatively, you could be an experienced Accounts Assistant who has reached the point where you're ready for more responsibility.

You'll be confident with ledgers and reconciliations, understand how your work feeds into month end and, importantly, be someone who can spot when something doesn't look right and investigate it.

An AAT qualification or progress towards ACCA/CIMA would be welcomed, but we're equally interested in experienced candidates who have developed their accounting knowledge through practical, hands-on experience.

Experience with Sage or similar accounting systems would be useful, alongside good Excel skills.

What makes this such an appealing role?

For the right person, the appeal is the step up.

You'll remain hands-on, but you'll also get closer to the month-end process and work alongside an experienced Management Accountant, giving you the opportunity to continue developing your technical accounting knowledge.

It's an opportunity to become an important member of a smaller finance team within an established local business, where you'll be trusted with responsibility rather than simply given a list of transactions to process.

• Salary: Up to £38,000 depending on experience
• Hours: Full time, 39 hours per week
• Location: Salisbury

If you're looking at your current Accounts Assistant role thinking "I'm ready for more", we'd be very interested in talking to you.

Contact: Louise Howard | 01722 741840 | [e-mail]