'Recruiting for your future success'
Our client provide HVAC planned and reactive maintenance across East Anglia and London via their field based technical team. They pride themselves in providing a high level service. They are a longstanding family team with a great reputation in the industry. They are a team that work together and support one another.
Accounts Assistant
£23-26k | Colchester | Mon-Fri 8-5 (Friday 4:30pm finish) | Excellent Working Environment (discounted gym membership, games room, discounted nursery onsite, café discount) | 25 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays) | Raising Invoices, Producing Accurate Reports, Credit Control/Chasing Suppliers, Reconciling Ledgers, Working with Internal Teams | Accurate, Detail Orientated, Customer-Focused, Collaborative | Family Run-Business, Quality-Orientated, Relationship-Focused, Service-Driven
Our client is actively seeking a willing and enthusiastic team player, working closely with the operations and field-based team on a daily basis. Keeping systems up to date and record financial related data accurate to weekly and monthly deadlines.
Duties (include but are not limited to):
- Assisting in raising sales invoices to weekly targets, ensuring they are accurately detailed, along with relevant reports and sending the invoice to the customer via their required method.
- Carrying out credit control, chasing of debts and dispute follow up / resolution via telephone and email.
- Effective control of sales ledgers, meeting monthly targets and deadlines.
- Daily reconciliations of bank, purchase ledgers and expenses; reviewing non-conformance and chasing suppliers for credit notes and VAT invoices as necessary.
- Reconciling purchase ledgers and expenses.
- Processing of supplier invoices, ensuring they agree to the purchase order/works.
- Updating company software systems with payment status on both accounts receivable and payable.
- Assisting both team members and clients with queries, liaising with the Operations Team to resolve any queries and chase up outstanding information.
- Assisting Finance Supervisor with end of month closing and reporting of accounts
- Ensure all procedures are adhered to at all times.
- General administrative duties.
- Assisting the Operations Team on an ad-hoc basis.
Person Specification:
- 2 years' experience in an accounts / finance position essential
- Team player with a positive can-do attitude
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- High level of attention to detail
- Self-motivated with a positive outlook and a clear focus on accuracy
- Well organised and able to work effectively and calmly under pressure with a high level of tact,
- diplomacy, discretion and confidentiality.
- Natural problem solver
LIGHTHOUSE PERSONNEL LTD ARE A RECRUITMENT AGENCY WORKING ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT.
PLEASE NOTE WE RECEIVE A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS PER VACANCY AND UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT RESPOND TO ALL APPLICANTS. THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN A MONTH FROM APPLICATION DATE, IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.
If you have been successful, we will contact you by the phone and begin taking you through our step by step recruitment process, doing our utmost to ensure the role is right for you, ascertaining your suitability in the process. This process will all be explained on initial contact.