Accounts Assistant

Hays are looking for an ambitious Accounts Assistant to join a growing engineering business based in Stockport. The successful candidate will have the responsibility of maintaining the Purchase Ledger for three separate entities. Reporting directly to the Finance Director/Controller, we are looking for ambitious individuals looking to grow within their finance career.

Key tasks:

• Looking after the purchase ledger for three companies.
• Purchase invoice processing, obtaining authorisation, reconciling supplier statements and promoting pay.
• Company credit card (for multiple people) processing includes reconciling receipts and flagging any gaps.
• Uploading invoices and maintaining the invoice discounting portal, including reconciliations and liaising with the provider.
• Bookkeeping, including company bank account postings.
• Incoming post
• Dealing with supplier queries.
• Answer Finance office phone and deal with phone calls in relation to purchase / sales ledger and company credit card / misc calls.

Skills Required:

• Sage 50
• Excel
• Sales Ledger
• Purchase Ledger
• Sales Ledger
• Excel Skills (VLOOKUP, Pivots etc)
• Knowledge of Xero Software preferred but not essential

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