Accounts Assistant

2 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Webrecruit Full time

Manchester, Greater Manchester

About Us

We are Wilson Gunn, a leading firm of patent and trade mark attorneys. With offices in Manchester, Birmingham, Chesterfield, Glasgow. Liverpool and London. Our clients range from aspiring start-ups and SMEs through to multinational corporations and internationally renowned brands.

We are now looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our head office in Manchester on a permanent, full-time basis, working 35 hours a week.

The Benefits
- Competitive salary DOE (increasing after probation period)
- Christmas bonus
- Auto enrolment pension scheme (after three months)
- 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 30 with service
- Holiday buy/sell scheme (after 12 months)
- Full support and training
- Ride2work scheme (after probation period)

If you are an Accounts Assistant looking to advance your career in one of the country’s leading IP firms, we want to hear from you.

Championing learning and development, we give our employees the support they need to fulfil their potential. We pride ourselves on our track record of delivering results for our clients, and you will be pivotal in that process, assisting the accounting function, ensuring that accurate accounts are maintained and growing your skill set.

We work flexibly and offer a mix of home and office-based working.

The Role

As an Accounts Assistant, you will provide a range of different functions to support the business. Whilst your day-to-day work will be limited to a subset of those functions, you are encouraged to become familiar with other functions so that you can provide cover for other members of the team. Focusing on completing tasks to a high standard within set deadlines, you will:

- Ensure that our internal accounts are accurate, and up to date
- Provide general administrative support to the accounts function
- Maintain intellectual property office deposit accounts
- Maintain cashbooks, including posting receipts/payments to Sage and bank reconciliation
- Maintain sales and purchase ledgers, including posting disbursements, sales invoices and overheads to Sage
- Check disbursements entered on the practice management system
- Process payments
- Process monthly invoices

About You

**To join us as an Accounts Assistant, you will need**:

- At least one year’s experience as an Accounts Assistant
- Experience of Sage (preferable)
- A high level of IT literacy, including MS Office
- At a minimum, GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 4-5/C or above in English and Maths
- An outstanding eye for detail and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- The ability to use your initiative and work independently to assist the accounts team
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- The ability to work as part of a team
- A willingness to learn

Webrecruit and Wilson Gunn are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.


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