Accounts Assistant
£25,000 - £28,000 Depending on experience
Permanent
Monday – Friday 9:00 – 17:00
Hyde, Manchester
Proman is working with a manufacturing business who is looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant on a full-time, permanent basis. You will be working within a busy Accounts team so experience within a fast-paced environment is essential. This is a varied Finance/Accounts Assistant position where you will be required to prepare monthly journals, reconcile balance sheets and, maintain ledgers. Therefore, experience in an all-round Finance position is essential for this position.
Accounts Assistant
Benefits
- Auto enrolled into our Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- 28 days holiday (including statutory), rising by one day over five years, with each completed year of service.
- Life Assurance covering your annual salary.
- Subsidised canteen offering freshly cooked meals and sandwiches every day.
- Free car parking.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling support, legal guidance, and medical advice from qualified nurses, for you and your immediate family.
- Discounted Gym Membership.
- Discounted Blinds and Shutters, upon successful completion of your Probationary Period.
- Free Flu Jab voucher every Autumn.
- Christmas Savings Scheme.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Collating documentation to support journal transactions for expenditure and sales in profit and loss accounts.
- Prepare and post monthly recurring journals for specified Balance sheet accounts and reconcile BS accounts including Insurances, Heath Care and Rates.
- Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
- Prepare and post inter-company journals, ensuring all figures are agreed by agreed deadlines.
- Maintaining cashbooks and credit card receipts – including downloading bank statements, recording bank statement transactions, posting all currency sales ledger and nominal items on a daily basis.
- Ensure all purchase ledger items are complete to enable daily posting.
- Reconcile all bank accounts on a daily basis.
- Review and reconcile Petty Cash book and cash on a weekly basis.
- Liaise with department heads to obtain approval for supplier payments.
- Ensuring there are adequate levels of currency to cover supplier payments.
- Completing reports for inclusion in the Board report.
- Issuing foreign currency to staff, ensuring sufficient levels of currency.
- Recognise, prepare and produce prepayments and accruals
- Coding and posting journals.
- Producing payment sheets for Assistant Company Accountant, including employee expenses.
Accounts Assistant
Key job requirements:
Essential Criteria:
- Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge.
- Accurate, organised, and able to meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Previous experience in a similar role.
- Experience of sales and expenditure analysis.
- Strong teamwork ethic.
- Experience of working in a finance department.
- Experience of working with allocating concepts i.e., accruals and prepayments.
Desirable Criteria:
- Training to become or be AAT qualified.
- Experience in manufacturing environment.
- Stock experience.
Accounts Assistant
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