Accounts Assistant
Permanent Opportunity
Salary: £24,000
Location: Nr Leek, Staffordshire
Excellent opportunity to join an established company and small Accounts team, a lovely place to work.
The Role:
1. Processing purchase invoices
2. Match invoices against Purchase Orders/GRNs
3. Uploading onto the SAP system with the appropriate nominal ledger coding
4. Answering supplier queries by telephone or email
5. Setting up new suppliers on the system
6. Match invoices to the duty deferment statement and related freight invoices
7. Identify and file invoices where reverse charge VAT is required
8. Processing supplier payments
9. Identifying when payments are due
10. Preparing payment runs and updating the SAP system
11. Assisting with month end procedures
12. Preparing monthly journals
13. Work as a team to post the various journals to the system
14. Assist the Finance Manager in the preparation of the monthly management accounts
15. Prepare various monthly reports to send directly to head office
16. Process employees’ expenses with reconciliations to credit card statements
17. Prepare balance sheet reconciliation
18. Assist in the preparation of monthly cashflow forecasting
19. Ensure that audit trails and files are kept throughout the year to assist with the year-end audits or external inspections
20. Assist external auditors or external inspectors in all aspects of the finance department
21. Manage capital expenditure
22. Recording purchase invoices to the correct project, reconciling back to the asset register
23. Reporting to head office amounts spent and still left to spend on each project
24. The completion and submission of National Statistic returns
25. Ensure good communication and assist other departments with any finance related queries
Skills and Attributes required:
1. Customer account management, purchasing or sales experience
2. Excellent communication skills (telephone and email)
3. Ability to influence and build strong supplier relations
4. Confident in dealing with deadlines and working under pressure
5. Strong PC skills in all Microsoft packages and SAP
6. Strong organisational skills
7. Accurate data entry and attention to detail
8. Confident in dealing with supplier and customer queries to progress the order
The Hours:
Monday – Friday, 8am - 4pm, 35 hours per week.
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