Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

Are you a detail-driven Accounts Assistant who loves keeping the numbers sharp and the cash flowing?

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Location:

Leeds
💷 Pay: £26,000 – £30,000 per annum (DOE)
🎁 Benefits:
✔️ 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
✔️ Birthday day off 🎂
✔️ Company pension scheme
✔️ Free on-site parking
✔️ Staff social events
✔️ Supportive team environment
✔️ Genuine career progression

✅ Must Haves:
✅ 2–3 years’ experience in a finance/accounts role
✅ Proven credit control experience
✅ Strong Excel and accounting software skills (e.g. Xero)
✅ Confident communicator with a professional telephone manner
✅ Solid understanding of VAT, reconciliations & accounting principles

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Hours:

Office hours with flexibility on start and finish times

💼 About the Opportunity

If you’re an experienced Accounts Assistant ready to step in to support a fast-paced, creative manufacturing environment, this could be your perfect move. This Accounts Assistant role blends hands-on accounting with proactive credit control, giving you real ownership and visibility within the finance team.

As an Accounts Assistant, you’ll play a vital part in maintaining healthy cash flow, strengthening customer relationships, and ensuring financial accuracy across the board. This is more than just another Accounts Assistant job — it’s an opportunity to grow your career in a business that values precision, teamwork and progression.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

🔹 Managing customer accounts and monitoring overdue invoices
🔹 Chasing payments and resolving billing queries professionally
🔹 Allocating incoming payments and reconciling sales ledgers
🔹 Conducting credit checks and recommending credit limits
🔹 Processing sales, purchase and self-billing invoices
🔹 Completing daily bank reconciliations
🔹 Supporting month-end processes and aged debtor reporting
🔹 Maintaining accurate financial records
🔹 Escalating complex accounts when required

🌟 Desirable (But Not Essential)

✨ Experience with in SME, manufacturing or service sectors
✨ Exposure to management reporting
✨ A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
✨ Desire for long-term progression

If you’re a motivated Accounts Assistant who thrives on organisation, enjoys ownership of credit control, and wants to be part of a supportive finance team — we want to hear from you.

10 Recruitment are delighted to be working on this vacancy for our client. However, we are looking to shortlist immediately, so please apply today to avoid missing this opportunity