Job Title: Accounts Assistant (9-months Maternity Cover)
Location: Northampton
Salary: £20,000 – £22,203 per annum
Job Type: Full Time (40 hours/week), Fixed-term Contract – 9 months
The Company is an award-winning specialist care provider, to adults with learning disabilities, autism, and challenging behaviour. They are always striving to push back the boundaries of possibility in the lives of people they support. Their staff teams are at the very heart of their identity.
Job Role:
They require an experienced and highly self-motivated Accounts Assistant who can work independently and as part of the team at the head-office. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who thrives on using their initiative to ensure that the work is always completed to the required timescales and meet the standards. This role will be offered on a fixed 9 months contract to cover a maternity leave.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Reconciling finance accounts
- Maintaining spreadsheets
- Credit control
- Preparing statutory accounts
- Cash allocation
- Sales and purchase invoice processing
- Managing daily post in and out
- Handling and writing cheques
- Receiving and processing all invoices, expense forms, remittance advices and requests for payment
- Verifying calculations working with the Accounts system
- Reconciliation of Direct Debit mandates
- Managing petty cash transactions
The Candidate:
- Strong understanding of the working of an office environment
- Basic understanding of accountancy and book-keeping
- Would hold or be working towards an accountancy qualification
- Good interpersonal skills – to deal with customers and external contacts
- Good organizational skills and ability to work to, and sometimes implement own processes
Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role, making sure to specify if you are able to drive.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Finance Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Purchase Ledger, Accounts Assistant, Financial Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Accounts Clerk, Finance Officer, Accounts Officer, Finance Clerk, Finance Administrator, Assistant Accountant, Accounts Payable, Accounts Analyst, Accounts Receivable may also be considered for this role.
