Accounts Specialist

Accounts & Finance Team Member

Location: Ipswich
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9.00am-5.00pm
Weekend work: None
Overtime: No mandatory overtime

We are looking for a commercially aware and technically confident Accounts & Finance Team Member to join our established team in Ipswich on a permanent basis.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to do more than simply maintain the accounts. At first you will take responsibility for our existing reconciliation and credit control functions, before working closely with our technical team to identify opportunities to automate, improve and streamline these processes.

Once successful improvements have been made, you will continue this approach across the wider accounts department - helping us modernise the way we work and making our financial processes more efficient, accurate and scalable.

We are looking for someone who is naturally curious, thinks critically and is confident enough to question established processes when they can be improved.

Responsibilities will include:

• Completing daily and monthly bank and account reconciliations.
• Managing credit control and customer accounts.
• Ensuring customer and supplier accounts are accurate and up to date.
• Investigating discrepancies and resolving financial queries.
• Working with Sales and Management to make informed decisions about customers and suppliers.
• Managing a high volume of financial transactions across our UK and EU operations.
• Preparing and reviewing financial information and reports.
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting.
• Preparing management accounts and VAT returns.
• Working with our technical team to identify opportunities for automation.
• Challenging existing processes and developing more efficient ways of working.

Over time, there will be significant scope to take ownership of additional processes and projects as your knowledge of the business develops.

We are looking for someone with a strong accounting foundation who combines financial knowledge with excellent computer skills and a genuine interest in technology.

You will need:

• Proven experience working within an accounts department at a similar scale to our business.
• A clear understanding of accounting principles. Relevant qualifications are preferred, but not essential where sufficient practical experience can be demonstrated.
• Experience working with balance sheets, financial statements, cashflow statements, budgeting and forecasting, management accounts and VAT returns.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good communication skills.
• The confidence to communicate effectively with colleagues, management, customers and suppliers.
• Excellent computer skills and confidence working with financial and business systems.
• An interest in how technology and recent developments can be used to modernise and improve accounting functions.
• The confidence to question existing processes and suggest better ways of doing things.

Most importantly, we want someone who thinks beyond the task in front of them. If you see a repetitive process and immediately start thinking about an opportunity to make this process quicker, more accurate or automated, you may be exactly the person we are looking for.

We are an established importer and supplier to the wholesale and retail trade, with offices in Ipswich and Cardiff.

We have been trading for over 50 years and have a experience as a reliable employer.