Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant / Tattenhall / Salary £25,000 - £30,000 / Hybrid Working / Career Development / Immediate Start / Permanent Role 

Accounts Assistant Role Overview

As the Accounts Assistant, you will be responsible for both the Purchase Ledger with Sales Ledger duties involved. You will ensure accurate and timely updates to the accounting system, and handling customer and supplier transactions. You will also be responsible for debt collection, account reconciliation, and addressing queries.

Accounts Assistant Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for the purchase order process, including raising and coding all purchase orders
• Match purchase orders to invoices and delivery notes, ensuring any queries are addressed and invoices are posted on the system to meet deadlines.
• Ensure all expense claims are checked, coded, and input onto the system.
• Reconcile creditor statements.
• Produce due and overdue reports and decide on necessary payments.
• Ensure all invoices, expense forms, and other documents are filed correctly.
• Raise supplier payments.
• Ensure the accruals and prepayment process is efficient and completed within agreed timescales.
• Send out reminder letters weekly and effectively deal with customer enquiries, raising credit notes where necessary.
• Process cheques received, monitor BACs payments on internet banking and input onto system
• Complete bank reconciliations onto the system
• Review customer accounts and monitor aged debt reports.

Accounts Assistant Experience Required

• Experience of working in a similar role and/or Accounts environment
• Strong IT skills (Microsoft office) particularly Excel
• Good experience in accounting systems
• Reliable with strong work ethic
• Attention to detail and dedication to providing high quality, error-free work

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