Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant
Based: Deeside

**Salary**:

- £23k - £25k PA
Our client are a thriving technology business based in Deeside, North Wales, just 8 miles from Chester and with good road links to Liverpool and Manchester. They are a customer-focused organisation specialising in the design and manufacture of advanced technology solutions which we supply across the world. Their principal business areas include: SCADA for the electricity supply industry, Integrated Security and Mobilising Command and Control systems. Due to an increase in work they are currently recruiting for a temporary accounts assistant to start for a period of circa 3-6 months
Main purpose and Scope of the role: The Finance Department is responsible for maintaining job costing records and accounting records. Working in a small team, this is a pivotal, varied role requiring interaction with all departments as well as external customers and suppliers to ensure the smooth running of our finance function. Covering a variety of aspects of accounts work including, but not limited to, order entry, purchase ledger, sales ledger, nominal ledger, fixed asset ledger, credit control, payroll, reconciliations, invoicing and shipping: the Finance Department are also responsible for producing routine reports, special reports and analytical work as and when required by the wider organisation.
Job Role & Duties: Duties & responsibilities include carrying out the following;
- Providing support to the Finance Director with all day-to-day accounts duties in order to ensure that all data required for the accounts ledgers is accurately controlled and input
- Helping to control and inputting of the data required for job costing
- Helping to control and input the data required for the Fixed Asset Register
- Customer order entry, due dates and sending order acknowledgements
- Inputting (invoices, bank payments / receipts, timesheets, creditors, fixed assets, journals etc) onto the accounts system and, where required, into spreadsheets
- Preparing sales invoices, monitoring cash received and chasing debtors for payment
- Reconciling control accounts
- Handling and counting cash
- Assisting with month-end / year-end duties and payroll preparation
- Helping to control the pricing of store and PCB issues
- Helping to control the maintenance of material/PCB/RTU price manuals
- Helping to control the costing bill of materials and releasing into the system
- Helping to control the costing of components and keeping costs up-to-date
- Preparing shipping/despatch documents
- Completing analysis and reports as and when required, for example the Monthly untraded orders report and the Full listing of Sales and Cost (GCR) report
- Ensuring compliance, at all times, with all company Security, Environmental and Health & Safety policies and procedures, highlighting any real or potential Health and Safety issues to management in a timely manner and assisting in actioning any decisions made by management
- Any other duties as and when required to maintain efficiency of the department/Company

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities: Building effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
Special Conditions: Flexibility to work overtime when requested to meet specific deadlines
Hours of Work: 36 hours Lunch: ½ hour Start: 08:00 Finish: 16:30 (Mon-Thurs) 12pm (Friday).

Job Types: Full-time, Temp to perm

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

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Deeside, Flintshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location