Accounts Assistant

**BASELINE INFORMATION**

**JOB TYPE**:
Permanent

**LOCATION**:
Brackley, Northamptonshire

**TYPE**:
Office-Based

**HOURS**:
40 hours per week

**ABOUT US**
Neighborly (yes without a u) was established over 40 years ago in the United States as a small family business. Since then, Neighborly has grown into a world leading company in home brand services and landed in the UK in 2010 as Neighbourly with the focus of acquiring and developing premium franchise brands within the home service industry.

In the 13 years that Neighbourly has been in the UK, it has shown its keen intent for growth, with over 300 locations across 6 brands with over 2,000 frontline staff. Gaining a strong reputation for investment and franchisee development consistently growing year-on-year and we don’t plan on slowing down

**Our Brands**:

- Drain Doctor
- Bright & Beautiful
- Countrywide Grounds Maintenance
- Dream Doors
- The Pimlico Group
- Greensleeves Lawn Care

**Brand Info**:
Countrywide Grounds Maintenance is an established national landscape maintenance service provider, consisting of a network of 46 franchise businesses throughout the UK, supplying grounds maintenance and associated services to a wide client base.

**REPORTING STRUCTURE**

**REPORTS TO**:
Financial Controller

**KEY RELATIONSHIPS**:
Finance Team
Key Accounts Team
Bid Team
Franchisees

**PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**

The role of the Accounts Administrator is to support the Finance department, in particular with contract renewals, raising invoices, managing customer portals, and assisting in any ad-hoc tasks around month end.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Support the Franchise network to ensure contract renewals are processed accurately and on time.
- Raising invoices to customers in relation to contractual works and ad-hoc works.
- Support the Key Accounts Team with invoicing throughout the month.
- Extract and post data from our CRM system to our Finance system and ensuring this is reconciled and correctly input throughout the month.
- Required to support the finance team with ad hoc and month end tasks, looking for a can-do attitude and team player.
- Any other reasonable duty that falls within your capabilities.

**This role profile provides an indication of the role’s key accountabilities and is not intended to cover the whole scope of the role.**

**EXPERIENCE/SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE**

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Previous experience in a finance environment.
- Experience and confidence in using the full Microsoft Suite, especially Excel.
- Experience using a CRM is beneficial.
- Previous experience with basic contracts is beneficial.

**SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE**:

- Attention to detail.
- Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues, our franchise network and our customers.
- Strong administrative skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong time management and organisational skills

**BEHAVIOURS**
- Positive, can-do attitude.
- Self-motivated and keen to learn.

**INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT**
- Neighbourly is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to their age, sex, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity._

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

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person