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Accounts Assistant

Job in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1, England, UK
Listing for: Riverside Motor Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-09
Job specializations:
  • Finance & Banking
    Accounts Receivable/ Collections, Financial Reporting, Financial Compliance, Banking & Finance
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 23000 - 29000 GBP Yearly GBP 23000.00 29000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Accounts Assistant
- Motor Trade
- Wakefield

Essentials (You Must Have):
  • Proven experience supporting finance operations across multi-sites
  • Strong capability in ledger management and account reconciliation
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively

As an Accounts Assistant, you will support our brands by carrying out a wide range of core finance tasks, including managing sales and purchase ledgers, processing transactions, reconciling accounts, and assisting with month‑end activities.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Sales ledger duties: posting bank transactions, credit control, and following up debtor queries with departmental managers and customers
  • Nominal ledger: posting bank, intercompany and other nominal ledger journals
  • Assisting with month‑end close processes and resolving related queries on all ledgers, vehicles, sales and purchase.
  • Responding promptly to internal and external finance queries, checking and paying urgent payment requested and customer settlements.
  • Maintaining accurate financial records, documentation, and filing systems.
About You:
  • Excellent numeracy skills with strong attention to detail
  • Minimum of Level 2 AAT qualified
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word)
  • Experience working under pressure while maintaining high levels of accuracy
  • Confident handling queries face‑to‑face, over the phone, and via email
  • Previous experience in a similar Accounts Assistant role, ideally within a fast‑paced, multi‑site business
Why Riverside?
  • 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
  • Bonus
  • Refer a friend
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Career opportunities across the Group
Working hours:

Monday-Friday - 08:30-17:00pm (40 hours per week)

We're actively interviewing candidates and look forward to hearing from you.

Company Number:

VAT Number

Riverside Hull Limited, Riverside Motors (Doncaster) Limited, Riverside Motors (Hull) Limited, Riverside Motors (Wakefield) Ltd, Riverside Motors Leeds Limited & Riverside Wakefield Limited are an appointed representative of ITC Compliance Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (their registration number is 313486). Permitted activities include advising on and arranging general insurance contracts and acting as a credit broker not a lender.

We can introduce you to a limited number of finance providers. We do not charge a fee for our Consumer Credit services. We do not act as a financial adviser, or fiduciary. We act in our own interest, whichever lender we introduce you to, we will typically receive commission from them based on either a fixed fee or a fixed percentage of the amount you borrow.

Any and all commission amounts will be fully disclosed to you as part of your sales journey. You will be required to give your fully informed consent to our receipt of this commission. By doing this, you acknowledge that you understand our role as a credit broker, and that we will receive a financial incentive if you take out a loan from a lender that we introduce you to.

All finance applications are subject to status, terms and conditions apply, UK residents only, 18s or over, Guarantees may be required.

Data Protection No: Z5997812

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