Accounts Assistant
Horsham, West Sussex
Permanent, Full-time
Salary £25,000-28,000pa (salary negotiable)
A growing business based in Horsham is currently seeking a committed Accounts Assistant to join their team in a varied finance role. This organisation is building upon several years of healthy growth and expanding its operations, which means they need extra support across sales & purchase ledger, cash books, expenses, and various reconciliation tasks.
Candidates will either come from a varied finance admin background incorporating various aspects of bookkeeping, or be looking for a more varied role with existing experience in purchase ledger as a key experience focus here.
This long-standing business can offer a supportive, friendly office environment and good job security.
Overview of duties:
*Supplier invoice/credit note processing.
*Handling supplier queries
*Transaction validation using system reports.
*Supplier statement checking and reconciliation.
*BACS payments processing - weekly, month end and ad hoc
*Processing Sales/Purchase Ledger Contra’s
*Periodic reconciliations for both ledgers.
*Processing Direct Debit collections and rejections
*Processing and posting refunds to sales ledger and purchase ledger accounts
*Maintaining and reconciling Cash Books
*Cash Book period end processing
*Processing Cheques and Bacs received from Customers.
*Processing Expenses
*Ensuring disputes, queries and unallocated amounts are cleared for both ledgers.
*Generation and utilisation of Experian and aged debt reports for Credit Control and for the maintenance of the Sales Ledger
*Producing customer statements and conducting Sales ledger reconciliations
*Assisting with new finance system implementation
*Ad hoc tasks as required