Senior Accounts Assistant

6 days ago


Harrogate, United Kingdom Oakdale Centre CiC Full time

Job title: Senior Accounts Assistant

Location: Harrogate ( Hybrid)

Hours: 9.00AM- 5.30 PM

**Salary**:28K-33K

**About us**:
Oakdale was established nearly twenty-five years ago and is highly regarded as a professional therapy provider. We are a not-for-profit community-based organisation and our team is united by a commitment to provide flexible, bespoke, evidence-based, and high-quality clinical services to meet the particular needs of each of our clients as well as the requirements of commissioners for an appropriate, collaborative, value-for-money service.

The Oakdale Group provides a wide range of specialist assessments, including for autism, ADHD, and developmental trauma. Oakdale also provides a wide range of psychological therapies for children, young people, and adults. Many of our services are commissioned by the NHS, Local Authorities, and schools, and include services for NHS staff. Others are accessed by members of the public who pay for them privately, through medical insurance, or through our charitable arm.

**The role**:
Due to growth in the organisation and new avenues of business, we are looking for a Senior Accounts Assistant to support the day-to-day running of the finance function. This hands-on role would suit someone with good technical skills in accounting and spreadsheet work. You should have an eye for detail and a willingness to embrace change and meet the challenges of growth and diversification enthusiastically.

If you have the appropriate skills and experience and are interested in joining an organisation that makes a direct impact on the health and wellbeing of its clients, we would love to hear from you

Key responsibilities:

- Maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers
- Reconciliation of bank accounts and the sales and purchase ledgers
- Raising and processing sales and purchase invoices
- Credit control.
- Following and using our accounting and database systems (Xero for accounts and a bespoke configuration of Salesforce for our database), taking ownership of the vital requirement to make sure that the organisation’s financial database and systems are accurately maintained, so that all activities that rely on this can function properly.
- Working with and maintaining relevant spreadsheets.
- Helping build and maintain strong working relationships with commercial customers, suppliers, and other external parties
- Supporting month-end and year-end processes, facilitating timely and accurate reporting of financial and management information

**About you**:
The Senior Accounts Assistant is expected to undertake a broad range of duties and responsibilities in maintaining the financial records of the organisation and providing appropriate management information from this data.

**Essential**:

- Experience using a range of IT systems and packages including databases
- A good understanding of bookkeeping and accountancy procedures
- Ability to make recommendations in process improvement
- Enthusiastic, committed, and a fast learner with previous experience in a busy environment (at least two years experience of similar work typically gained working as part of a finance team)
- Ability to work in a role handling complexity and variety.
- Computer literate with an aptitude for numbers
- Strong communication skills with the ability to facilitate the resolution of issues
- Ability to work with individuals across departments and liaise with external customers and contacts
- Solid organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
- Able to work on own initiative and to tight timescales
- Proactive, organised, and methodical, with a temperament suited to working with details, taking pride in the accuracy of your work.
- High level of personal and professional commitment
- Someone who can be relied upon to work with mínimal day-to-day supervision, maintaining their motivation to process a high volume of transactions reliably and accurately.
- Someone who shares the organisation’s values and is willing to go the extra mile to support their colleagues and help our clients as part of a small but dedicated and close-knit team.
- Strong ability to follow patterns and problem-solve if needed

**Desirable**:

- Experience of using Google Workspace.
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience of Xero accounting software would be an advantage
- Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality

**What we offer**:
In return for the hard work and dedication of our teams, we offer the following benefits:

- 21days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising after the length of service)
- Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay (OSP)
- Cycle to work & enhanced car schemes
- Simplyhealth Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP, and priority physiotherapy access
- Fully funded flu vaccines
- Employee discount scheme
- Technology salary sacrifice scheme for home appliances, tablets, mobiles, TV’s, fitness trackers, and more
- Ongoing CPD (internal & external) - we work with expe


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