Finance Assistant

UTS Engineering Ltd is a global specialist in the pipeline industry. We aim to provide quality, yet cost effective piping solutions within the shortest lead time. UTS Engineering provide pipe fitting, steel fabrication and under pressure drilling services, alongside a 24 hour emergency response.

We are looking for someone to support our group finance department. Responsibilities will be split and varied between various Group companies. This includes LCR Engineering, UTS Engineering and Ulrich Attachments Ltd.

**Responsibilities**:
**Sales Ledger**
- Reconcile internal sales ledgers to factoring company ledgers and investigate any discrepancies.
- Cash allocation (Factored and direct receipts).
- Credit control support.
- Retention reconciliation and collection support.
- Electronic point of sales reporting/reconciliation/posting.
- Set up customer accounts.

**Purchase Ledger**
- Processing supplier invoices including matching and agreement to PO & goods receipt.
- Seeking authorisation of any Non-PO related expenditure.
- Supplier statement reconciliations.
- Set up supplier accounts.
- Dealing externally and internally with any invoice disputes.

Expenses
- Management, posting and reconciliation of all employee expenses and credit cards.

**Bank**
- Posting and reconciling daily all group companies’ bank accounts (Currently 9 x bank accounts & 4 x factoring accounts).

Data Analysis & Internal Reporting
- Production of a variety of internal reports for further analysis.

**Management Accounts Support**
- Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts to support the timely completion of the monthly management information packs.

**General/Admin**
- Management of Accounts Inboxes.
- Dealing with customer/supplier queries.
- Escalation of issues where necessary to the wider finance team.
- Finance filing / archiving etc.
- Taking external finance telephone calls (12pm to 5pm).
- Providing cover to other finance staff during holidays/periods of absence.
- Work robustly to all of the policies and procedures within the accounts department, whilst maintaining confidentiality and communicating effectively with the wider team.
- Any other ad hoc tasks and projects that may be required.

**Person Specification**:

- Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a fast paced finance role.
- Minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grade C and above, including Maths and English.
- Ideally will hold a suitable accounting / bookkeeping qualification (i.e. AAT).
- Experience using SAGE 50 Accounts.
- Knowledge of the Construction Industry would be desirable.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Outlook and Excel. Data analysis using pivot tables and Vlookup’s etc. would be advantageous.
- Have excellent analytical and numerical skills.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Morpeth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location