Accounts Assistant

**An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast paced growing finance team, making a difference to lives every day.**

Abbots Care is an award-winning domiciliary community care provider in Hertfordshire with a CQC rating of outstanding. Within the role as the Accounts Assistant, you will support Abbots care’s finance department with their day to day functions, by carrying accounting duties and performing administrative and clerical duties.

Abbots Care is a Growing business within Social care and a lead provider across the Hertfordshire area, this role will provide an opportunity to be a part of an industry that is essential to our society and one that is known for job security in the face of a recession or economic downturn.

**The role**

Accounts receivable:

- Invoice processing and uploading onto QuickBooks, sending them to the relevant customers
- Credit control: chasing unpaid invoices, sending out statements
- Taking payments over the phone
- Responding to invoice queries in a timely and efficient manner
- Basic administration

Accounts payable:

- Checking and uploading all supplier invoices onto Receipt Bank
- Organising supplier payment run
- Dealing with supplier queries

**Person Specification**:

- At least 2 years previous experience working as part of an accounting of financial team in an office environment
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, in order to deal with customers
- Ability to work as a part of a team
- Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Proficiency with accounting software, such as QuickBooks preferable although training will be provided

**Benefits**:

- Salary of £24,000 per annum
- A company you can be genuinely proud of - we make a meaningful day to day difference to people's lives
- Newly refurbished office near to St Albans City train station
- Independent, award-winning company - established for 27 years
- Amazing opportunities for career progression
- A knowledgeable, friendly and high achieving team - there's no home care family like ours
- Great staff events - we love celebrating our people and the community
- Our perks include access to our innovative wellbeing app, travel, gym and high street store discounts
- Team department challenges and quarterly bonus schemes
- Additional days holiday added for each year of service

**Who are we?**

Founded in 1995 as a small family business, Abbots Care is now a multi award-winning, CQC rated Outstanding care provider with family values still very much at the heart of what we do. As well as being committed to providing the very best care for our service users, we strive to ensure our staff have access to specialist training pathways, career development opportunities and well-being support.

We are the lead provider to Hertfordshire County Council and have an excellent reputation for meeting the needs of the people we support and delivering high-quality person-centred care.

**There are so many reasons to join our team, but these are our top five-**

**Feeling of reward**:There is no better feeling than knowing you have made a difference to someone’s day, week or even month.

**Flexibility**:We understand the importance of having a work life balance.

**Variety**:No day is ever the same and this truly is a special part of working in care.

**Real qualifications**:Unlike other care providers, we offer a full range of training and opportunities to gain qualifications, we also pay for your training course as well as the time you have spent training with us.

**Our perks**:There are plenty of reasons you will love working with us, from our competitive pay rates to our market leading mileage pay. We have a fantastic management team and operate an open-door policy in our branches.

When you join Abbots Care, you join a family like no other. We pride ourselves on the quality of the staff we employ, and when you join us, you will receive the absolute best training and ongoing support to help you in your role.

INDLOW

**An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast paced growing finance team, making a difference to lives every day.**

Abbots Care is an award-winning domiciliary community care provider in Hertfordshire with a CQC rating of outstanding. Within the role as the Accounts Assistant, you will support Abbots care’s finance department with their day to day functions, by carrying accounting duties and performing administrative and clerical duties.

Abbots Care is a Growing business within Social care and a lead provider across the Hertfordshire area, this role will provide an opportunity to be a part of an industry that is essential to our society and one that is known for job security in the face of a recession or economic downturn.