Accounts and HR Assistant

**JOB DESCRIPTION & PERSON SPECIFICATION**
- **POST**:Accounts and HR Assistant
- **LOCATION**:Blair’s Holiday Parks, Hilltop, Portrush
- **REPORTS TO**:Finance Director
- **RESPONSIBLE TO**:Finance Director & Chief Executive Officer
- **ACCOUNTABLE TO**: Managing Director and Board of Directors
- **Salary Band**: £26,000-30,000
- (depending on experience)

**About Blair’s Holiday Parks**

Blair’s Holiday Parks, now under the new ownership of Melior Private Equity, is embarking on an exciting growth journey. With a dynamic strategy focused on both organic growth and acquisitions, we are set to expand and elevate the holiday park experience across Ireland. As the leading holiday park business in the region, we proudly offer 4* and 5* self-catering accommodation Portrush, along with our exciting new venture at CastleWood Holiday Park in Antrim. With four diverse locations, including 900 privately owned holiday homes, luxury self-catering caravans with spa facilities, touring sites, camping cabins, geo domes, and traditional campsites, this role offers plenty of variety and excitement every day

As part of Blair’s Holiday Parks, you’ll be joining a passionate and ambitious team dedicated to surpassing customer expectations. We’re committed to providing opportunities for career growth and job satisfaction at every step. Plus, enjoy some great work perks along the way

If you're hardworking, a team player, detail-oriented, love tackling challenges, and thrive on delivering exceptional service with our #happystays ethos, we want you

**The Role: Unleash Your Potential with Blairs Holiday Parks**:
Reporting directly to Finance Director of Blair’s Holiday Parks, you will be responsible for elements of both Financial and Human Resource activities. This is an exciting role which crosses cross functional boundaries and allows you to see behind the scenes of the business, working closely with senior management and having a real impact on both your colleagues, business processes and the business’ financial statements. In both areas, you will have the opportunity to impact business operations - bringing efficiencies and improving effectiveness and accuracy.

Time spent with Blair’s Holiday Parks will undoubtedly be a great career boost.

You will be part of a highly motivated and ambitious team, which always strives towards surpassing sales targets and customer’s expectations. And, the best bit, you’re in it from the start

**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**

**Essential Criteria**
- 3+ years of working in a related role
- AAT qualified / in training - or equivalent experience
- In possession of full driving licence
- Excellent communication skills
- GCSE in English and Maths - at least ‘C’ grade
- Ability to work in a team as well as in an organised and independent manner
- Managing workload with multiple deadlines - setting your own schedule and tasks to ensure work is on time, complete and accurate
- Analytical mindset and orientation towards problem solving
- Self-awareness in understanding knowledge gaps, with proactiveness and keenness to learn

**Desirable Criteria - or willingness to learn**
- User of Sage50
- Experience in financial and operational reporting weekly, monthly and quarterly
- Knowledge of HR reporting requirements and best practice

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**For all relevant areas of work:

- Develop knowledge of businesses processes; propose design/improvements, lead in implementation and review
- **Accounting-related tasks include**:

- Expense recognition
- Inputting and managing invoice receipt process, ensuring accurate accounting
- Credit Control: Ensuring accurate debtor and credit reporting, investigation and issue resolution
- Bank reconciliations
- Managing Expense Claims
- Processing and verifying employee expense claims
- Assisting with Payroll: Helping with processing and ensuring data accuracy
- Responding to day to day operational financial queries
- Audit Support: Preparing files for audit and responding to basic queries
- Administrative support to the Board

**HR-related tasks include**:

- New Hire Orientation: Assisting with onboarding of new employees, including document collection
- Recruitment Process Records Management: Ensuring accurate and regulatory compliant record keeping
- Employee Records Management and reporting: Maintaining accurate records
- Handling basic Employee Inquiries
- Working with Managers across the business to ensure Regulatory Requirements are adhered to e.g. accurate contracts and training needs

**OTHER DUTIES**:
1. Maintain staff relationships and morale among all company staff.

2. Employees of the company are required to promote and support the vision and direction of the Board of Directors at all times.

3. At all times provide a customer focused service and to treat those with whom they come into contact in a courteous and respectful manner.

4. Demonstrate their commitment by their regular attendance and the efficient completi