Accounts Assistant

**Alfa Leisureplex Group **have an opportunity for a** 6 Month Fixed Term** **Accounts Assistant **to join our team** **based at our **Central Office, Euxton, Chorley**. This is to provide additional support during the busier summer period and also provide maternity cover.

The Alfa Leisureplex Group is one of the UK’s most highly respected coach holiday and hotel companies with a consolidated turnover of over £54 million per year. We are the UK’s only employee owned Travel Company and our brands include Leisureplex Hotels, Alfa Travel and David Urquhart Travel.

Leisureplex Hotels own and operate 22 hotels in the UK’s most popular seaside locations. We have a combined bed stock of 1,800 rooms and achieve strong all year round occupancies due to our sister brands Alfa Travel and David Urquhart Travel, plus our links to other coach operators and group organisers. We also cater for Self Drive guests and direct hotel bookings.

As an employee owned business with over 850 employee partners, we see our people as our most valuable asset in growing our business and continuing to provide a high quality service to our customers.

**The Accounts Assistant Role**:

- Full time, fixed-term role working 37.5 hours per week, over 5 days Monday to Friday
- Salary of £23,000 p.a.** **pro-rata
- Office based

This is the perfect opportunity for anyone coming out of education or anyone considering a career change and looking for broad finance/office based experience, as this role covers multiple aspects of finance within the hospitality industry.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**
- Purchase Ledger: Processing of supplier invoices through to the completion of the payment runs, including the resolution of supplier invoice queries
- Sales Ledger: Credit control, account maintenance, invoice creation and receipt allocation
- Cash book posting and bank reconciliations
- Other tasks as required
- Finance experience is an advantage but not essential as full training will be provided
- An interest in accounts and the travel industry
- Solid administration skills including excellent attention to detail
- Proficient in IT, in particular Microsoft Excel and Word
- Minimum of 5 GCSEs grade A-C (or equivalent), including English and Maths
- Able to work well as part of a team and on your own using initiative

**Benefits of being an employee**
- Support and continuous development opportunities
- Flexi time scheme, providing core hours are covered
- Company occupational sick pay scheme
- Fantastic discounts on our holidays and hotel stays
- Free onsite parking
- Annual dividend payment for being an Employee Owner, free from tax paid twice yearly
- Job Security - our employee owned status provides better job security, as we cannot be sold to another company
- Build your pension - we have a pension scheme in place that the Company contributes towards
- Employee assistance programme - Health Assured

If you feel you have the necessary skills and attitude to be a successful **Accounts Assistant **within the Alfa Leisureplex Group, click** ‘apply’ **today**. **We’d love to hear from you