Finance Administrator

Johnston Fuels are a family business with 13 limited companies within the group. We have been delivering fuel since 1965 with a focus on exceptional customer service.

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join the team at our Head Office in Bathgate on a Fixed Term Contract to cover Maternity leave.

**Main Duties**:

- Opening and distributing incoming post within the Head Office
- Arranging outgoing post to all Customers in the afternoon
- Being the first person to answer external and internal telephone calls
- Dealing with initial request before fielding calls to other finance members, if necessary- Running weekly reminder letters
- Scanning documents onto customers’ accounts
- Credit Control assistance
- Processing card payments
- Processing and posting cheque payments onto customers’ accounts
- Processing unpaid Direct Debits
- Running daily invoices and monthly statements
- Setting up of new customer accounts and maintaining existing account details
- Processing stock transactions and confirming deliveries of fuel onto customers’ accounts
- Working closely with the Senior finance team to assist where necessary

**The Person**

This is an extremely varied role within a busy Accounts Department.

To be considered for the role you must:

- Have good knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook
- Excellent attention to detail, reliable and hardworking
- A strong communicator that’s able to work well within a team and help other team members when needed
- Be able to multi-task and prioritise workload
- **This role is a Fixed Term Contract to cover Maternity leave with the potential to become permanent.**

**About Johnston Fuels**:
Johnston Fuels has been on the road since 1965, distributing heating oil, commercial fuels, lubricants and LPG to homes and businesses throughout Scotland. Additionally, we have also kept you on the road with our vehicle maintenance division and selection of fuel cards, while ensuring that homes across Scotland are kept warm with our heating services team and range of biofuel products. In our business you can’t be a fair weather supplier. Over 18,000 homes depend on us to keep warm and it’s when conditions are at their worst that we’re most needed. Come wind, rain or snow, our people pull out all the stops to deliver.