Finance Assistant

My client is a successful and growing business looking to recruit an Accounts Assistant to join their finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong Accounts Payable experience who is looking to broaden their accounting knowledge and gain exposure to month-end processes, reconciliations and credit control activities.

Working closely with the Management Accountant and Senior Credit Controller, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the finance function across multiple business units.

Key Responsibilities

Accounts Payable

• Create and maintain supplier accounts, ensuring approval procedures are followed.
• Process high volumes of supplier invoices across multiple business units.
• Resolve supplier and internal invoice queries efficiently.
• Prepare and initiate supplier payments through online banking systems.
• Carry out regular supplier statement reconciliations.
• Process employee and company credit card expenses 
• Complete monthly expense reconciliations.

Accounting

• Maintain daily cashbooks across multiple bank accounts.
• Perform weekly bank reconciliations.
• Post inter-company journals and reconcile inter-company balances.
• Assist with month-end journal postings.
• Support the preparation of accruals and prepayments.
• Assist with balance sheet reconciliations across multiple entities.
• Support month-end and year-end reporting activities.
• Assist with process improvement and finance automation projects.

Credit Control

• Support the Senior Credit Controller with:
  • Cash allocation and posting.
  • Chasing outstanding debts.
  • Sales ledger reconciliations.
  • Resolving customer account queries.
• Opportunity to develop broader credit control experience.

About You

• Previous experience within an Accounts Assistant or Accounts Payable position.
• Strong understanding of purchase ledger processes.
• Experience performing supplier statement reconciliations.
• Good attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
• Confident communicator with strong problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working across multiple entities and business units.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Experience using Concur would be advantageous but not essential.
• A proactive attitude with a willingness to learn and develop.

What's on Offer?

✅ Exposure to all-round accounting duties

✅ Month-end accounting experience

✅ Credit control training and development

✅ Opportunity to work across multiple entities

✅ Supportive and collaborative finance team

✅ Long-term career progression within finance

Interested in learning more? Get in touch for a confidential discussion.