Accounts Assistant FTC

Môrwell Talent Solutions is partnering with a fast growth business in the St Athans area, who is seeking an Accounts Assist to join their finance team on 12-month Fixed Term contract. My client is ideally looking for someone who can join their team asap and is able to pay a salary of up to £30,000 per annum.

The Accounts Assistant will be responsible for providing accounting\bookkeeping and administrative support alongside side maintaining the purchase ledger, day to day banking and assisting with sales ledger invoicing and credit control across all group companies.

Reporting into FC the main responsibilities will include

• Set up and maintenance of supplier accounts.
• Processing the purchase ledger invoices including those in foreign currencies.
• Preparation of purchase ledger payment runs including payment of foreign currency invoices.
• Maintaining ledgers and preparing relevant financial reconciliations, collating information from supplier statements etc
• Processing of bank payments and posting the payments to the ledger.
• Timely reconciliation of all bank and credit card accounts including Euro and Dollar accounts.
• Processing of spend on the company credit cards.
• Processing staff expenses ensuring proper authorisation and adherence to the expenses policy.
• Supporting the finance team by issuing sales invoices as required.
• Supporting the finance team with credit control and debt chasing.
• Assisting in the improvement of the company s financial controls and procedures.
• Prepare basic analysis of nominal accounts as required.
• Assisting with the annual audit and tax packs by collating invoices\information to support accounting transactions.
• Other reasonable duties required to meet the needs of the business.

Key attributes -

• Good IT and communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Works well as part of a team and contributes to team deliverables and projects.
• Able to work to month end deadlines with little supervision.
• Energised and enthusiastic with a professional can do attitude

Skills / experience

• Experience of working within Finance in a similar role.
• Basic knowledge of VAT in relation to posting invoices and expenses.
• Experience of working with Sage 50 or other Sage software would be beneficial.
• Proficient with Excel.
• Credit control experience would be beneficial.
• Good Communication skills
• Experience of working with foreign exchange would be desirable but not essential.

The role will offer a salary of up to £30k and be based in the office at St Athans working 8:00 5:00 Mon Thursday, with a 3:30 finish on Friday.

Please can you let me know if this role sounds like it could be for you!