Accounts Assistant

Job description

  Location
Gateshead, Tyne And Wear
·  Salary
£ 9.5 - £ 10.5 / Hour
·  Category
Accountancy & Finance - AAT
·  Job type
Temporary
·  Industry
Office and Secretarial
·  External Reference
ACCASS

The Role

I am currently recruiting for a client based in Newcastle/Gateshead area, this exciting oportunity will be a broad-based role across Purchases, Sales, Nominal Ledgers and Payroll.

You will be expected to have a good working knowledge of Purchase Ledger including processing purchases invoices, processing payment run and posting payments to Purchase Ledger. Ensuring creditors are paid to terms and creditor reconciliations.

You will also have Sales Ledger experience including sales invoice generation and processing as well as processing payments made.

The role will also encompass posting various journals to Nominal Ledger and the reconciliation of control accounts.

You will require a basic understanding of payroll to cover holidays, and other ad-hoc tasks such as data entry to company spreadsheets and petty cash administration.

The Person

Essential for this role, you must have broad based experience in all aspects of accounts areas. You shall be comfortable in a fast-moving office environment.

You will be motivated and able to use initiative and used to working deadlines. You must be able to use Excel to a reasonable standard.

We expect you to have a great work ethic and be able to work as be part of a team.

Personal requirements.

Broad based experience in all aspects of accounts areas.

Comfortable in a small, fast moving office environment.

Motivated, able to use initiative and used to working to deadlines.

Ability to assist and work along-side Financial Controller.

Excel user to reasonable standard.

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