Accounts Administrator

**Location**:Staplehurst, Kent

**Salary**: £23,800 (FTE) DOE

**Hours**: 40hrs, Monday - Friday or part time alternative

**Contract**: Temp to perm, either full or part time.

**Extras**: Generous benefits package including:

- Competitive pay rates
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Quarterly staff bonus scheme
- Company sick pay scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- 2 x death in service cover
- Competitive holidays
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Training and development

**About Us**:
A family run company, Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of magnetically shielded products and rooms. Our brand new factory unit and Fibre laser with full stock automation more than doubles our production capacity and throughput. This period of expansion is a very exciting time for the Company and we are looking to speak to applicants interested in joining us in our accounts department in a new role as **ACCOUNTS ADMINISTRATOR.**

**About the Role**:
Joining a well-established, close knit team, this position will involve dealing with various aspects of financial administration and basic accounting duties connected with accounts both payable and receivable.

After appropriate training, the person will be able to assist the rest of the team with daily, monthly and annual financial duties, taking on some responsibility for inputting, reviewing and reconciling accounts. In addition to this, the accounts administrator will take on work related to the banking processes, assisting in process payments to external partners, maintaining updated records of invoices and processing staff expenses.

**Key Tasks/Responsibilities**:

- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for multi-currency accounts
- Creating sales and purchase invoices
- Undertake supplier statement reconciliations and make payments accordingly
- Credit control responsibilities
- Processing staff expense claims and credit card statements
- Undertake month end and year end processes
- Ensuring systems are up to date and accurate
- Assist with monthly reporting
- Participate in the development of the finance function, team and systems

**Essential Skills**:

- Educated to at least A level standard, ideally with relevant qualifications such as maths, economics, statistics, business studies, finance, etc.
- Some relevant work experience including sales & purchase ledger
- Strong accuracy and attention to detail
- Analytical by nature
- Ability to work independently and part of a team
- Flexibility to adapt to the needs of the business
- Strong IT skills, including Excel.
- Willingness to study

We acknowledge that the most valuable aspect of business, is the people, and we are looking to recruit the next generation of our workforce

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: From £23,800.00 per year

Expected hours: 25 - 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

**Education**:

- A-Level or equivalent (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)
- bookkeeping: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: FJ/LH110823