Accounts Assistant

**Accounts Assistant**
**Western Commercial, Broxburn**
**Salary up to £24,000 DOE**Thank you for your interest in working with Eastern Western Motor Group. We work with some of the world’s best loved brands. If you haven’t already, please browse around our company website and immerse yourself in our company’s history and read up on our brands. As we start to drive your aspirations to accessing a career here with us at Eastern Western Motor Group, you will really get to understand just why our staff and customers are indeed so passionate about all things Eastern Western
This is an amazing opportunity to work for a family run company who value their employees and in return provide state of the art working facilities, competitive salary packages, benefits and industry leading training. We work with 14 brands across 37 sites with just over 1500 employees.

**What does the Accounts Assistant job entail?**
- Accurate maintenance of the purchase, sales and nominal ledgers and the cashbook.
- Control and reconciliation of petty cash
- Periodic reconciliation of ledger accounts
- Compilation of the monthly payment run and ad hoc cheques as necessary
- Matching of purchase orders to invoices
- Maintenance of credit control process.
- To effectively contribute to the handling of all incoming and outgoing calls to ensure they are dealt with in a professional manner and meet agreed Company Standards.
- Maintain customer portals ensuring start PO, final PO and payments are received within agreed timescales.
- Supervise customer payments to identify customers exceeding their credit limits, to control outstanding bills and to meet the set targets.
- Compilation of daily branch banking
- Supervising the authorisation of invoices.
- Liaise with debt recovery agencies
- Involvement in periodic stocks checks and reconciliations
- Assistance with any other task as directed
- Reception cover for sickness and illness

**What are we looking for in an Accounts Assistant?**
- Excellent communication skills
- Previous experience of sales or purchase ledger.
- Results orientated
- Financial awareness
- Problem solving and decision making skills
- Proactive / Creative
- Committed to providing high quality work
- Ability to work to deadlines
- PC literate

**In addition we offer first class employee benefits scheme such as**:

- Enjoy your birthday off on us every year
- Staff Discount - We offer excellent discounts on new and used car purchases, parts and servicing across all our brands.
- Generous Holiday Allowance - Your free time matters to us. We offer all our employees 30 days annual leave each year pro rata which increases with length of service
- Your Family Matters - As a family run company, your family matters to us. We offer our employees a pension plan, death in service and access to our staff saving scheme. We have corporate passes for Five Sister Zoo, Almond valley and many more
- Giving Back - We are proud to support charities and organisations that work to improve the communities that matter to us. In the past we have raised thousands for local charities by organising events from white water rafting to charity raffles.

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

**Salary**: £23,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Accounts receivable: 1 year (preferred)
- Credit Control: 1 year (preferred)
- administration: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)