Accounts Assistant

We’re recruiting for an Accounts Assistant on behalf of a Leicester based manufacturing organisation. The successful candidate will play a key role working closely with the Finance Manager and supporting the finance function.

This is an exciting opportunity where you will get exposure to working for an international company and experience to working with an e-commerce business.

The role will initially be an Accounts Assistant where you will take responsibility for transactional accounting but will over the period of 6-12 months you will progress into an Assistant Accountant role through on-the-job training.

Salary and benefits:

• £24,000 – £29,000
• 24 days + 8 bank holidays (4 days to be used for Christmas)
• Life assurance
• Statutory pension
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office / 2 days from home after training period)
• 37.5 hours per week

Duties and responsibilities of the role within 6-12 months

• Responsible for the fixed asset register and depreciation
• Accruals and prepayments
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Assistant with the preparation of accounts to trial balance
• Production of weekly payroll BACS and paperwork for approval and checking of timesheets
• Reconciliation of holiday pots monthly
• Reconciliation of petty cash and foreign currency advances
• Processing credit cards employee expenses
• Processing of E-commerce sales and receipts and reconciling back to the E-commerce platform
• Assistance in the completion of national statistics information.

Skills and experience required:

• Studying AAT
• Minimum of 6 months – 1 year in an Accounts Assistant role
• Experience of sales and purchase ledger and journals
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience of using accounting software packages (Microsoft Navision desirable)
• Good excel skills (VLOOKUP’s and formulas, SUMIF’s required)