Accounts Assistant

Page Personnel are recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join a well-established local business in Macclesfield.

Client Details

A successful manufacturing business, with excellent progression opportunities, are looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their growing business.

Description

The Accounts Assistant will report to the Finance Manager, and will be responsible for assisting the finance team and the wider business.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Sales Ledger

• Record payments for retail customer sales & print VAT invoices

• Process/print sales invoices from collection notes received from the warehouse

• Manual recharge invoices

• Check customers credit limits before an order is processed

• Issue cheques for customer compensations and summarise on compensation spread sheet

• Summarise invoices on invoice/payment logs

• Customer rebate calculations

Purchase Ledger

• Match signed stock delivery notes to purchase invoices

• Check and process Service, marketing, delivery, stock and purchase invoices to nominal accounts

• Resolve invoice queries with the suppliers

• Run & process weekly payment run and issue cheques

• Reconcile monthly statements

Other ad hoc duties

• Sage admin - new stock codes, bill of materials, customer price bands

• Commission sheets & costings

• Adhoc sales order processing

• Updating procedures

• Preparing paperwork for various audits

• Interaction with external bodies - Auditors, FSC, FCA & HMRC

• Assisting with Health & Safety

• Adhoc admin duties

• Answer Telephone and Take Messages

• Post - List , Frank and post all Sales Invoices, Purchase Payments

Profile

The successful candidate will:

• Have recently worked as an Accounts Assistant
• Have ideally worked with a Sage accounts package

Job Offer

£20,000 salary + free parking + generous holiday allowance + company pension scheme + other excellent benefits