Accounts Assistant

Our client is a well-established specialist manufacturing business supplying customers across the UK and international markets. As a result of continued growth, the company is seeking an experienced and highly organised Accounts Assistant to join its finance function.

The position offers broad responsibility across transactional finance and will involve working closely with the Finance Director and wider business. The successful candidate will be responsible for the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions while providing effective support across the wider finance function.

The Role

The successful candidate will have previous experience across purchase and sales ledger functions, together with a sound understanding of reconciliations, credit control and general finance administration.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Processing purchase and sales invoices accurately and efficiently
• Managing purchase ledger, including matching invoices, processing payments and resolving supplier queries
• Maintaining the sales ledger and raising customer invoices
• Allocating customer payments and carrying out account reconciliations
• Monitoring outstanding balances and supporting credit control activity
• Chasing overdue invoices and dealing professionally with customer account queries
• Completing regular bank reconciliations
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