Accounts Assistant

Are you looking for a part-time role in finance? McCarthy Stone has a fantastic opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join our Purchase Ledger Team. This position is ideal for someone with prior transactional cash experience who is ready to take the next step in their career. **Position Details**: - ** Job Title**: Accounts Assistant (Purchase Ledger Team) - ** Salary**: Competitive with great benefits, including an annual bonus, regular pay reviews, and opportunities for career growth. - ** Hours**: Part-time (17 hours per week) - Split across Monday (in-office), Wednesday, and Friday, with a 1-hour lunch break. - ** Work Arrangement**: This is a job shared role, initially office-based for training and support, moving to a hybrid model after discussion with the Team Leader. **What We are Looking For**: - ** Skills**: Excellent communication, problem-solving abilities, and a collaborative attitude. You should be able to work flexibly based on business needs and maintain a positive, "can-do" approach. - ** Qualifications**: GCSE Mathematics (C Grade or above), proficiency in IT packages and databases, strong typing skills, and intermediate Excel capabilities. - ** Experience**: Previous administrative experience is essential. **Role Overview**: As an Accounts Assistant, you will play a key role in supporting our Management Services Finance team, focusing primarily on the purchase ledger function. Your responsibilities will include processing a high volume of invoices, setting up new suppliers, and managing employee expense claims. **Key Responsibilities**: - Inputting purchase invoices and credit notes. - Setting up new suppliers in the system. - Processing employee expense claims. - Ensuring compliance with purchase ledger controls. - Assisting the Management Accounts team and resolving outstanding invoice/credit note queries. - Supporting audit queries at year-end. - Complying with health and safety policies, promoting equal opportunities, and delivering excellent customer care. **Why Join McCarthy Stone?** - Gain diverse experience within our Billings Team. - Collaborate with colleagues across the business and with homeowners. - Be part of our ongoing transformation journey within the Service Finance Team, driving the growth of the business. - McCarthy Stone has been recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for three consecutive years. **OUR VALUES** Being part of the _McCarthy Stone_ family means being passionate about championing the role, wellbeing, and happiness of older people in society. We aim to create a better understanding and appreciation of older people by playing our part in helping them to live happy and healthy lives. From senior executive positions to front-line colleagues, we have a shared vision of creating a thriving retirement community, built with innovation and heart, that celebrates later life_._ **Currently McCarthy Stone does not offer sponsorship for any of their roles. We will only be able to consider applicants that have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.** As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people. We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain. We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list