We're excited to be recruiting exclusively, for this brand-new position as an Accounts Assistant for a reputable company who have doubled their turnover in the past few years. This position is working as part of a small finance team of 2, working in brand new recently refurbished offices and would suit someone who likes a quieter office.
Please find all the details below:
Job Title: Accounts Assistant
Location: Ashford, Kent. Office based.
Salary: 30,000 - 35,000 DOE
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5:30pm
Benefits: 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays, Annual pay reviews, Discretionary company performance related bonus
Reason for recruiting: The current Accounts Assistant is retiring after 20 happy years of working at this friendly and expanding company.
As the Accounts Assistant your responsibilities would be:
- Post all sales ledger invoices to clients
- Post all sales ledger receipts
- Identify receipt of Client Trust funds and maintain detailed records
- Post all purchase ledger invoices
- Post all purchase ledger payments
- Profit & Loss and Balance sheets
- Produced from Sage Line 50
- Management accounts produced on spreadsheet for Finance Director and Chief Executive
- Analysed by Regional areas and by Client
- Reconciling client trust accounts.
- Invoicing
- Raising Sales invoices to clients.
- Receiving, checking and processing purchase invoices
- Raising self-billing purchase invoices as appropriate
- Checking payments received from Clients
- From the Remittance Advices, identifying which invoice/claims were paid
- Keeping cash book up to date
- Paying purchase invoices.
- Payment Processing
- Reconciling payments.
- Payment of invoices.
- Client Trust Account
- Reconcile the accounts on a weekly and monthly basis
- Banking
- Debt collecting
- Chasing up Clients for payments not yet made
- Batch posting to Sage Line 50
You'll be the perfect match for this position if you have:
- An AAT qualification or are Qualified by experience
- Previous Accounts Assistant experience
- An excellent telephone manner
- The ability to contribute effectively to an enthusiastic team
Next steps:
Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to further your career in finance, apply today.
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We look forward to your application.
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