Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

DE55, Derbyshire

Monday – Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm

£30,000 - £34,000

Looking for someone to start asap

Job Purpose

Responsible for transactional work within the sales and purchase ledgers, cash book processing, point of sale income and provide front line response to any financial queries for the organisation.

You will work closely with the Financial Controller to provide month end support, routine financial reporting and process improvements, whilst ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data to audit standard.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain both the sales and purchase ledgers using Xero and related systems

• Process sales and purchase invoices and credit notes accurately, making sure they are correctly coded
• Match purchase invoices to purchase orders (where needed), check they are approved and post them correctly
• Create and track purchase orders to keep commitments up to date
• Set up and manage customer and supplier accounts, ensuring records are accurate
• Carry out daily, weekly and monthly reporting
• Keep all financial records organised and up to date (digital or paper)
• Supporting the Financial Controller with month end duties
• Handle credit control tasks
• Process employee expenses in line with company procedures
• Record cash transactions and regularly reconcile them with bank statements
• Support the preparation of monthly management accounts

• Reconciling control accounts accurately
• Helping analyse differences between actual results and budgets
• Checking that all financial data in Xero and related systems is complete and accurate
• Assisting the Financial Controller with ad hoc tasks
• Follow company policies, internal controls and audit requirements when handling financial data
• Communicate with colleagues, customers and suppliers to resolve queries and maintain good working relationships
• Keep financial procedure documents up to date

Experience:

• Ideally have knowledge of Xero BUT not essential
• Good IT skills
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Numeracy and accuracy in transactional work
• Transactional input
• Ability to multi-task
• Excellent attention to detail

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