Accounts Assistant

• Job Title: Accounts Assistant
• Location: Warrington (Hybrid working 3 days in the office)
• Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 per annum based on experience
• AAT study support
• Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Urban Empire Recruitment has partnered with a software company. We are looking for a part qualified accountant who will work in all aspects of the accounting and finance function.

You’ll be reporting to the Finance Manager and work closely to the operations Director. It’s a challenging and fast-paced environment that offers a career not just a job with fantastic progression opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Purchase ledger - processing purchase invoices / credit notes and reconciling the ledgers
• Sales ledger - processing sales invoices / credit notes and reconciling ledgers
• Weekly bank reconciliations
• Processing bacs payments
• Preparing monthly and quarterly vat returns for review
• Upload journals onto the system for monthly payroll, purchasing rebates, branch till takings and expenses
• Reconciliation of intercompany transactions
• Liaising with other departments, branches, suppliers, customers, and Directors to resolve issues
• Process information to assist with monthly cashflow
• Monitoring shared email inbox, responding to enquires and forwarding to the relevant team member or department
• Purchasing as required for branches or head office, office supplies and marketing materials etc
• Carrying out general administrative duties such as sorting internal mail, document scanning and filing

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Part qualified AAT level 2 / 3 or ACCA or something similar
• You interact readily with other technical professionals, have outstanding people skills
• Strong attention to technical detail and first-time accuracy is essential
• Flexible approach to working hours should client meetings be scheduled out of hours and a willingness to meet exacting service delivery standards
• A self-starter

When you apply for this role a consultant from Urban Empire Recruitment will give you a call if you’re successful.

Please note due to the large volume of applications we receive for these roles, if we have not contacted you within 7 days then unfortunately your application hasn't been successful. however, we may contact you regarding other roles. We're sorry we can't contact you directly, but we wish you all the best in your job search