Accounts Assistant

Finance Assistant

Location: Market Harborough, Leicestershire
Working Hours: Monday–Friday Full time
Salary: £30,000
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We’re recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join a business based in Market Harborough. This is a broad finance position suited to someone who already has a solid grounding in transactional finance and is looking to continue developing their experience across month-end, management accounts and wider finance activities.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you’ll take ownership of key day-to-day finance processes across the group while supporting cash flow forecasting, credit control, reporting, compliance and finance improvement projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Processing purchase invoices and raising sales invoices and credit notes
• Posting and allocating bank payments, receipts and ledger transactions
• Maintaining accurate purchase and sales ledgers
• Preparing supplier payment runs and uploading payments for approval
• Completing bank and petty cash reconciliations
• Processing employee expenses and company credit card transactions
• Producing aged debtor reports and carrying out credit control
• Following up overdue balances and resolving customer and supplier queries
• Updating weekly cash flow forecasts with actual and expected movements
• Supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts and finance packs
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations, including accruals, prepayments and fixed assets
• Posting journals and supporting the month-end close
• Assisting with revenue, cost, margin and project reporting
• Supporting VAT returns, year-end requirements and statutory audit preparation
• Assisting with P11D preparation and other routine finance compliance
• Supporting finance process improvements, system development and automation initiatives

You’ll ideally have:

• AAT qualification and be actively studying towards ACCA or CIMA
• At least two years’ relevant finance/accounting experience
• Good hands-on experience using accounting/finance systems
• Strong Excel skills, including PivotTables and lookup formulas
• Experience across transactional finance with the confidence to take on broader month-end responsibilities
• Good communication skills when dealing with customers, suppliers and internal colleagues
• Strong organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage competing deadlines

Submit your CV to apply.