Our friendly and market leading company based within the manufacturing sector are looking for a Finance Assistant to join the team based in Heywood, Greater Manchester.This role will be to cover a maternity contract 12 months fixed term and you will be reporting to the Group Finance Manager. The responsibilities of the post holder and the essential/desirable skills and qualifications include:Daily bank reconciliation Daily/Weekly Cashflow forecasting and reporting to the Group Finance Manager Sales Ledger Invoice processing, issuing of monthly Customer statements and allocation of payments Credit control duties, analysis of due/overdue Accounts Receivables and contacting customers to secure payment dates Purchase Ledger Invoice processing, Statement Reconciliation, analysis of due/overdue Accounts Payable and setting up bank payments to suppliers Processing weekly and monthly wages and expense payments using Xero (with Pensions Module) Weekly uploading of pension file contributions to the Company workplace pension provider Deducting subcontractor tax for online monthly submission under the HMRC s CIS programme Issuing monthly CIS tax statements to subcontractors Setting up Monthly PAYE/NIC/CIS payments to HMRC Quarterly VAT reconciliation, return and setting up payment to HMRC Creating project files and maintaining financial information within these files Supervision of timesheet information which is entered on a weekly basis on Job Costing Monitoring of costs and staged ..... full job details .....