Senior Accounts Assistant

3 weeks ago


Penrith, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Mat cover 12 months role, based near Penrith - Senior Accounts Assistant
**Your new role
**12 months Maternity leave cover - Start ASAP
Reporting to the Finance Manager, as an integral part of the finance team, the Senior Finance Assistant will be highly organised and used to working to tight deadlines to ensure robust financial reporting.
Typical duties will include:

- Processing supplier invoices and staff expenses with related payment runs
- Managing new/existing supplier details and relationships
- Communicating with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers, providing excellence customer service
- Supplier statement reconciliation
- Purchase card and petty cash control, review, ledger postings and reconciliations
- Bank postings with matched invoices and corresponding reconciliations
- Assist Finance Manager with month end processing to achieve strict deadlines
- Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Involvement in implementation of a new purchase order system
- Resolving queries with both internal and external stakeholders
- Support of the team with any ad hoc finance work

**What you'll need to succeed
**Experience in a similar role, particularly Purchase / General Ledger, nominal ledger, accruals prepayments
Experience of month end processes and assisting with Management Accounts
Excellent IT skills and good finance system knowledge
**What you'll get in return
**Salary £28,000 per annum, full time role - flexibility to work from home 1 day per week
25 days plus 8 bank holidays
Pension, employer awards and living wage bonus (Dec start)
**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.



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