Finance Assistant - Harvey John : Job Details

Accounts Assistant

Horsham, West Sussex

Permanent, Full-time

Salary £25,000-28,000pa (salary negotiable)

A growing business based in Horsham is currently seeking a committed Accounts Assistant to join their team in a varied finance role. This organisation is building upon several years of healthy growth and expanding its operations, which means they need extra support across sales & purchase ledger, cash books, expenses, and various reconciliation tasks.

Candidates will either come from a varied finance admin background incorporating various aspects of bookkeeping, or be looking for a more varied role with existing experience in purchase ledger as a key experience focus here.

This long-standing business can offer a supportive, friendly office environment and good job security.

Overview of duties:

• Supplier invoice/credit note processing.
• Handling supplier queries
• Transaction validation using system reports.
• Supplier statement checking and reconciliation.
• BACS payments processing - weekly, month end and ad hoc
• Processing Sales/Purchase Ledger Contra’s
• Periodic reconciliations for both ledgers.
• Processing Direct Debit collections and rejections
• Processing and posting refunds to sales ledger and purchase ledger accounts
• Maintaining and reconciling Cash Books
• Cash Book period end processing
• Processing Cheques and Bacs received from Customers.
• Processing Expenses
• Ensuring disputes, queries and unallocated amounts are cleared for both ledgers.
• Generation and utilisation of Experian and aged debt reports for Credit Control and for the maintenance of the Sales Ledger
• Producing customer statements and conducting Sales ledger reconciliations
• Assisting with new finance system implementation
• Ad hoc tasks as required