Accounts Assistant

2 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Parsons, Chartered Accountants Full time

As Accounts Assistant at Parsons, Chartered Accountants, you will quickly become a valued and integral member of the Commercial team, who offer outsourced finance functions for a variety of SME’s across the UK. Working alongside other Accounts Assistants and a Financial Controller, you will be confident in all areas of maintaining financial accounts within busy and varied finance departments.

Ideally, you will be confident in using software such as Sage and Xero and have previous experience working within an active finance department. Collaboration is key at Parsons and as such you will be working closely with the Financial Controller, providing accurate reports and dealing with routine accounts queries from both clients and their suppliers. If you are looking for an opportunity to work within a friendly, collaborative and supportive finance team then we would love to hear from you.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Maintaining accurate and timely financial accounts for our clients
- Preparing a monthly trial balance
- Handling routine client and supplier queries
- Reconciling client accounts
- Processing supplier invoices and payments
- Providing accurate reports to the Financial Controller for the management accounts

**Key skills and experience**:

- Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping and high level of attention to detail
- Able to work with a variety of software to maintain accounting records
- Able to answer accounts queries with confidence and clarity
- Able to reconcile accounts and prepare a final trial balance
- Able to prepare basic spreadsheets with calculations
- Clear written and verbal communicator
- A confident user of all Mircosoft programmes

**Desirable**:

- Previous experience and knowledge of using Xero accounts and Sage
- Confident in utilising complex Excel functions

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary and annual reviews
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Death in service
- Company socials
- Working within a progressive firm with a fantastic team culture
- Professional development opportunities


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