Finance Assistant to Purchase Ledger

2 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom A Surman & Co Ltd Full time

We are a long established, hard working, family-run construction company based in Hockley, Birmingham.

Due to the ongoing expansion of our business (current turnover of approximately £18m), we are looking to appoint an experienced purchase ledger Accounts Assistant

Hours of work are 7.30am to 4.30pm

Happy to work in an office with a dog

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**

Reporting to the Finance Manager, main duties and responsibilities;
- Deal with high volume of transactional entries onto Sage 50 Cloud Accounts e.g.
invoices, expenses, credit cards
- Match invoices to delivery notes, add to Purchase Order log, distribute to Managers to
authorise
- Reconcile monthly supplier statements to sage, follow up queries
- Reconcile monthly credit cards with receipts
- Match weekly fuel invoices to receipts
- Produce petty cash expense forms & enter onto sage
- Support the month-end accounting processes.
- Administrative duties on behalf of the Finance Manager.

**Person Specification**

**Skills and experience required**

**Qualifications **
- 5 GCSE's or above

AAT (desired but not essential)

**Skills and abilities**
- Demonstrable strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- High level of organisational skills and experience.
- Skilled in the use of information technology.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment, frequently under pressure, on multiple tasks. A “Can-do” attitude.

**Experience**
- At least two years’ experience in financial accounting.
- **Experience using Sage Line 50 is essential**, Excel & Microsoft Office.

**Personal Qualities**

**Teamwork**
- Embraces diversity and displays respect and loyalty to colleagues and Directors;
- Engages effectively and is helpful and supportive towards others;
- Highly collaborative, taking the time to engage with team members;
- Reliable and committed to success of the team;
- Embraces change and is adaptable;
- Able to multitask and willing to take on additional roles and tasks.

**Communication**
- Natural communicator at all levels, approachable and knowledgeable;
- Open and transparent, but also maintains trust and confidentiality;
- Prepared to challenge information and bureaucracy;
- Embraces and absorbs new information.
- Comes up with ideas and communicates these to others.

**Commitment and results delivery**
- Displays the highest levels of integrity and commitment with an ability to deliver excellent results;
- Plans ahead and manages time effectively;
- Deals with ambiguity, flexible and creative in approach to delivery;
- Resilient and positive through change and adapts positively;
- Takes accountability and ownership of tasks and problems;
- Tenacious and seeks to overcome obstacles and challenges;
- Uses initiative to resolve matters within control and understands when to pass on relevant issues or incidents;
- Comes up with ideas and shares these with the team;
- Follows rules and guidelines
- Provides quality work that is fit for purpose.

**Motivation and drive**
- Self-motivated and proud to be part of a growing company
- Demonstrates enjoyment in their work;
- Professional, polite and approachable manner;
- Positive attitude and optimistic;
- Resilient, calm and in control of emotions.

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

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

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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