This local business who are seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant to support them on a 3 month temporary contract.  The role will require someone who has experience across purchase ledger, sales ledger and nominal ledger.
 
Job Description: 

• As the Accounts Assistant you will match, input and post purchase invoices into the invoice register and purchase ledger accurately
• Review the Finance worktray and bulk post invoices that have been approved
• Review worktray report for any discrepancies and resolve
• Review supplier statements investigating and resolving any discrepancies
• As the Accounts Assistant you will generate a weekly payment run; liaising with relevant signatories to arrange availability for authorisation / sign off
• Ensure a remittance advice is issued to all suppliers with every payment that is made
• As the Accounts Assistant you will raise sales invoices, review debtors report weekly to ensure payments are received promptly and any issues a resolved
• Issue statements to debtors
• Allocate income to invoices
• Nominal Ledger
• Bank reconciliation
• General ledger posting

Candidate Requirements: 

• Experience of maintaining a finance function including sales ledger, purchase ledger and cashbook
• Previous experience within housing and knowledge of services charges would be an advantage
• Previous experience dealing with multiple cost centres would be ideal
• Experience of working with computerised finance packages
• Experience of communicating professionally and competently to resolve queries
• Experience of working to deadlines
• Strong numerical, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly at all levels
• High degree of accuracy in work undertaken and strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of windows-based software including word, excel, MS Office
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple work requests with little supervision using own initiative
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with an ability to meet tight deadlines
• Excellent communication & presentational skills- oral, IT and written to serve differing audiences.

Hours: Monday – Thursday – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Friday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Salary: £16.11 per hour

Brampton Recruitment are an independent Commercial and Accounts & Finance recruitment agency working in partnership with employers spanning Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, Cheshire, and the Greater Manchester region.