Accounts Assistant

Shelbourne Motors is one of Northern Ireland’s most progressive and award-winning automotive groups. Operating across two state-of-the-art locations, we proudly represent Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Renault, Dacia and Maxus
, alongside our Auto Select used car supermarkets and our expanding Fleet (fleet4u) and Rental (SVRgo) divisions.

In recent years, Shelbourne Motors has undergone a major period of transformation and recognition.

Most recently, we were proudly awarded:

• Dealer Group of the Year 2024 & 2025
• EV Dealer of the Year 2025
• Best Marketing Campaign 2025
• Business Eye –
  Northern Ireland’s Fastest Growing Family Business
• AM Awards –
  Highly Commended:
  Best Marketing Strategy

Due to continued growth and expansion, we are looking to recruit an additional Accounts Assistant to grow our exisiting Accounts Team. The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting the finance function and helping drive operational excellencee. We are fully flexible on start and finish times, hours and days per week to attract the very best candidate for this role.

The Accounts Assistant role supports the smooth running of the finance function. The job holder will be an essential part of a team providing administrative support to Senior Accounts.

Daily duties will involve credit control management for Sales & Purchases, reconciling nominal ledgers, collating & logging all invoices onto the accounts IT system to ensure prompt payment, banking including bank reconciliations, lodgements, receipt and management of all cash along with general administrative duties such as opening, sorting & distributing of post.

The essential criteria includes:

• Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant role
• Ability to process information accurately and efficiently
• Daily maintenance of Sales ledger and banking transactions
• Reconciling nominal ledgers with accurate detail weekly.
• Finalise nominal ledgers by 10th month to allow for Group Balance Sheet Review.
• Carry out monthly payments through system
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Computer Literacy
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Packages in particular Excel
• Previous working experience of an Accounts computerised system

Preference will be given to those applicants holding or working towards a relevant qualification, ideally IATI qualified, previous experience in a similar role within the automotive industry and working knowledge of the Keyloop computerised system.

Shelbourne Motors Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Working Hours Monday - Thursday - 8.30am - 5.30pm and Friday 8.30am - 3pm(40 hours per week) Will consider reduced hours.

Salary Competitive, depending on experience

• Benefits 30 days holidays increasing with length of service
• Free employer car parking
• Employer Pension Contributions
• Staff preferential vehicle purchase schemes

Shelbourne Motors Limited trading as Shelbourne Motors Portadown, Shelbourne Motors Nissan, Shelbourne Motors Newry, and Fleet4u is an Appointed Representative of Automotive Compliance Ltd, who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA No 497010). Automotive Compliance Ltd’s permissions as a Principal Firm allows Shelbourne Motors Ltd to act as a credit broker, not as a lender, for the introduction to a limited number of lenders and to act as an agent on behalf of the insurer for insurance distribution activities only.

We are a credit broker and not a lender. We can introduce you to a carefully selected panel of lenders, which includes manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that…