My client is looking to recruit an Accounts Assistant to join their team for an exciting opportunity to grow and develop your finance skills.

Job Purpose

The Accounts Assistant will be reporting into the Head of Sales Ledger.

You will be responsible for investigating, reporting on and correcting any errors on the sales ledger, principally with regards to receipting, to clean-up the ledgers and provide a true position to the business.

Accountabilities

• Production of receipt listings / Daily Banking
• Posting Cash
• Allocations
• Miscellaneous Queries
• Remittance Interrogation
• Identification of receipting and allocation errors
• Manipulation of multi-transactional data using Excel
• Clear, concise reporting of true account balance(s)
• To work with the Credit Control and Receipting teams to ensure monies are accurately allocated as per remit / schedule
• To support the Credit Control teams and Head of Sales Ledger with ad-hoc queries

Experience and Skills Required

Essential

• 3 years Accounts Receivable experience (Receipting, Credit Control or Billing)
• Intermediate Excel experience (Pivots, formulas, V Look up, formatting).

Desirable

• Experience of multiple accounting packages
• Experience of working with Local Authorities
• AAT / CICM qualified or studying (or QBE)
• Large ledger experience

Only relevant candidates will be contacted.