Accounts Assistant
Salary - £25,000 - £28,000
Hours - 8:00am/8:30am - 5:00pm/5:30pm (4:30pm finish on Friday)
Our rapidly growing, prestigious and well established client is on the hunt for an Accounts Assistant to join their busy team. A busy team that has found the need for a new addition to their accounts team due to an increase in workload.
The successful candidate will be reporting directly to the Financial Director and will work fluently alongside 3 Accounts personnel and receptionist creating a close knit team.
The successful individual will take on the following duties and responsibilities:
- Checking purchase invoices to delivery notes / Materials returns /Plant returns
- Following up any queries with site
- Checking prices of purchase invoices to orders, and liaising with Procurement and Site re any queries
- Posting invoices to Opera purchase ledger
- Reconciling month end supplier statements
- Assisting with the preparation of month end payment run including following up any held items and ensuring that credit notes have been properly dealt with
- Liaising with suppliers regarding any queries
- Processing the weekly payroll (approximately 70 directly employed site operatives) on broadly a 2 week on, 2 week off basis
- Dealing with any starters and leavers
- Submitting weekly Full Payment Summary to HMRC
- Submitting weekly Auto-enrolment pension contributions to Peoples
- Preparation of weekly subcontractor payment certificates for labour only
- Checking subcontractor labour only hours to timesheets
- Resolving any queries with the relevant Quantity Surveyor and labour only
Personal attributes and specification:
- Ability to work within a team, making a positive contribution
- Intellectual capacity/curiosity to learn all the different roles within the
- Finance /Admin department
- Flexibility to be able to switch between the various aspects of the role
- Organised and able to deal with changes to normal routine to deal with unplanned issues such as sickness cover for other team members
- Attention to detail and desire to be accurate. Able and willing to undertake both routine work (such as Purchase Ledger) and work of a more specialised nature (such as Subcontractor Ledger)
- Able to use at a basic plus level Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel plus
- Microsoft Outlook and Teams
If you believe you fit the bill or simply interested to find out more please apply.