A great opportunity has arisen within Barnstaple for an Accounts Assistant Apprentice to join a great team. The successful candidate will be offered training and study support.
Job purpose:
To support the financial performance of the Operations site by providing robust planning and reporting and ensuring financial control procedures are in place and are operating effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
* Strong numerical and spreadsheet skills
* Desire to complete Accountancy training
The role will involve analysing budgets, forecasting, working with other departments and teams, working to deadlines, prioritising and planning workloads.
During the period of the Apprenticeship, work and responsibilities will vary and could include a wide variety of Accounting roles such as:
Accounts Payable support to include:
* Sorting all invoices received daily and entering details onto the ERP system.
* Reconciling statements received to the supplier ledger to ensure data is complete.
* Processing expenses on the company system and preparing reports for management use.
* Overview of preparing the monthly Intrastat and Deferment reports (legal requirement).
* Overview of processing weekly payments for suppliers.
* Overview of monthly management reports.
Accounts Receivable support to include:
* Cash collection: contacting customers to ensure payment is received on time and helping to resolve any payment issues.
* Preparation of customer statements to show amounts owed and when payment is required.
* Allocating customer payments against their account balances.
General Ledger support to include:
* Creating and obsolescing business units.
* Preparing and entering journals for expenses, fleet and purchasing/Amex cards, prepayments, royalties/commissions.
* Reconciling bank accounts.
* Managing petty cash.
Financial Planning and Analysis support to include:
* Management reporting of sales and expenses.
* Product costing.
* Inventory control.
Such other duties and responsibilities as may be required to meet business needs. The successful candidate will be offered training and study support for the AAT qualification. This job description is not exclusive or exhaustive. Any aspect in consultation with the post holder may be reviewed and revised as the business function requires.
Qualifications required:
5 GCSE’s at grade A*-C or 4-9 to include English and Maths.
35.5 hours per week
Monday to Friday – 8.30am to 16.30pm with 30 minutes unpaid lunch.
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