We are excited to be working with a manufacturing business based in Lichfield to support them with the recruitment of an Accounts Assistant on a 12 month temporary basis.This position is a maternity cover role, however, there is a range of other exciting things going on at this business so this role has a chance to convert to perm and expand into something else interesting for the right person!This role will be supporting with both purchase ledger and sales ledger, with a 70/30 split with accounts payable/accounts receivable tasks. Ideally we are looking for someone with roughly 18 months experience within finance, having ideally done both purchase and sales ledger tasks, although only purchase ledger is essential.Due to the fact this is a temporary role, please only apply if you are immediately available or on a short notice.Key responsibilities:Processing invoices and three way matching them to supporting documents.Completing supplier statement reconciliations.Preparing invoices for payment runs.Setting up new suppliers.Sending out remittances.Monitoring a shared finance inbox and responding to finance queries.Raising invoices and sending them out to customers.Bank reconciliations and posting the incoming cash to the finance system.Allocating incoming cash to the relevant outstanding invoice.Liaising with the credit control team to provide back office support for any outstanding invoices that they need to chase.Other ad-hoc finance supportCandidate Attributes and ..... full job details .....