Accounts Assistant – Part Time 6 Month Contract

We’re delighted to be recruiting a 6-month fixed term contract for a Part-time Accounts Assistant on behalf of a well-known manufacturing organisation that has been established in Leicester for nearly 130 years.

The successful candidate will work as part of a friendly and industrious team. You will assist the team in a variety of finance functions directly reporting into the Finance Manager. This will be an office-based role and you will be required to be in the office on a Monday and Tuesday, but they are flexible on hours / other days.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Completion of credit control and generation of debtor letters / statements
• Assist the Finance Manager with balance sheet reconciliations and month end tasks
• Collation of timesheets for payroll and processing onto the payroll system
• Produce weekly payroll BACS and associate paperwork for approval
• Processing of credit card and employee expenses
• Cover and assistance with purchase ledger / sales ledger when required
• Customer and client supplier query resolution
• Dealing with financial paperwork and filing

Skills and experience required:

• Extensive account reconciliation experience – accounts up to trial balance
• Experience of payroll processing
• Previous experience of using accounting software packages (Navision desirable)
• Strong excel skills (pivot tables and VLOOKUP’s desirable)

Hours:

• 6 month fixed term contract starting in January 2022
• Part time 24 hours per week
• Monday and Tuesday must be based in the office

Salary and benefits:

• Circa £12.00 per hour
• 20 days + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata – full working week 37.25 hours)