Accounts Assistant

Page Personnel is partnering with a successful retail company based in Poole who are looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their finance team on a full time permanent basis.

Client Details

Our client is a successful retail business based in Poole who have seen rapid growth over the past 12 months. They do require travel into their offices but do offer a hybrid model of working.

Description

As the Accounts Assistant you will be responsible for:

• Complete daily sales invoicing for all customers in home currency
• Assist with aged debt report and contacting customers via email or phone calls about overdue balances
• Credit checks and set up new customer accounts on Sage
• Update customer accounts on Sage
• Enter customer receipts in various currencies and allocate receipts against correct customer accounts on Sage
• Reconcile customer accounts including all internal accounts and reviewing unallocated receipts on regular basis
• Reconcile Amazon accounts in 5 different territories - including posting and allocating receipts, posting sales or purchase deductions, escalating shortage claims to the relevant department on a regular basis
• Raise weekly Direct Debit collections through Sage 200
• Send out monthly statements to all customers
• Raise credit notes as and when required
• Import and reconcile of all PayPal and Braintree (customer credit cards) transactions in different currencies
• Escalate PayPal queries to relevant department
• Assist with month end journals as and when required
• Assist with company credit cards reconciliations as and when required
• Assist with posting purchase ledger invoices onto correct sage supplier account
• Assist with work in other departments where the needs of our business require
• Reply to general email queries or forwarding to appropriate departments

Profile

To be successful for the Accounts Assistant role, you must:

• Have previous experience of working in a similar varied Accounts Assistant role
• Be studying towards your AAT qualification
• Proficient in Excel at an intermediate level
• Ability to multi-task and reorder priorities when necessary
• Ability to work within a team environment and support other team members when required
• Excellent attention to detail

Job Offer

Salary £20,000 - £25,000