Assistant Management Accountant jobs in United Kingdom

A new opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Assistant to support the daily finance duties across the team. Your responsibilities will include reconciling supplier statements, scanning key documents, and supporting wider finance functions during busy periods. Strong Excel skills, attention to detail, and a proactive team approach are essential.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Proactively managing outstanding customer balances, ensuring timely collection of overdue invoices and maintaining accurate records of all correspondence.
• Communicating effectively with internal departments and external customers to resolve invoice-related issues.
• Issuing monthly statements to customers and conduct credit checks for new accounts, ensuring accurate setup in the accounting system.
• Sorting, logging, and scanning documentation including dispatch notes, supplier delivery tickets, and payment batches.
• Maintaining a register of proforma payments and update it with relevant transaction details.
• Matching purchase invoices with corresponding purchase orders and input data into the finance system, addressing any discrepancies promptly.
• Reconciling supplier statements to ensure account accuracy and follow up on any variances.
• Supporting the Finance Team with account clean-up and maintenance tasks as directed.
• Assisting colleagues during periods of staff absence, holiday cover, or peak workload.
• Carrying out additional finance-related administrative duties as required by the team.

You Should Have

• Strong IT skills with a confident working knowledge of Excel.
• Previous experience in credit control is advantageous, along with a good understanding of effective collection processes.
• High level of accuracy and organisational ability, with strong attention to detail.
• Experience in purchase ledger tasks.
• A reliable team player with the flexibility to support others and handle a varied workload in a fast-moving environment.