Accounts Assistant

Job description

  Location
Harlow, Essex
·  Salary
£ 23000 - £ 25000 / Year
·  Category
Accountancy & Finance - Accounts Assistant
·  Job type
Permanent
·  Industry
Banking and Financial Services
·  External Reference
ACCOUNTSASSISTANT

Accounts Assistant
Position: Accounts Assistant
Location: Harlow
Salary/Rate: £23,000 - £25,000
Type: Permanent, Full time

Job Description
Adecco Harlow are currently recruiting for an Accounts Assistant behalf of our local client, continuously growing client based in Harlow, Essex. The successful candidate will ideally have strong Accounts Payable skills and ability to work independently and on their own initiative. Ideal start date 2nd April 2018.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
-Overseeing accounts payable team and all invoicing in and out of the business
-Main point of contact for Accounts queries and assisting management with budgets, forecasting and debt
-Receiving and chasing BACS payments, allocations and matching payment to invoices - including relevant POs when required
-Month end journals on the system, database management including SAGE
-Monthly VAT returns, ad-hoc payments, bank reconciliation and third party invoicing
- Debt chasing
-Overseeing colleague holiday and absence tracking
-Postal duties

Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate:
-Ability to work independently and also oversee others workload
-Previous SAGE 200 experience a major advantage
-Proven experience / understanding of general duties as an Accounts payable clerk
-To be a clear and confident communicator and ability to work to strict deadlines
-Working on own initiative at times - therefore needs to be self motivated
Other:

-Accounts Assistant will be starting 2nd April (ideally)
-Pension scheme - 6% company scheme
-Working hours 9am-5pm M-F (1 hour lunch break)
-25 days holiday + bank holidays

Key Words:

Accounts Assistant / Purchase ledger / AAT / SAGE / Invoice / Accounts / Petty Cash /

Adecco is an Equal Opportunities employer that is happy to welcome applications for any applicant who fulfill the role requirements for this position. The Adecco group is a global company with more than 33,000 FTE employees and around 5,100 branches in over 60 countries and territories around the world. The Adecco Group offers a wide variety of services that include temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development, as well as outsourcing and consulting

Adecco is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.