Accounts Assistant

Role Overview & Responsibilities

This is a great career enhancing opportunity for a highly motivated individual to take on an Assistant Accounts/Bookkeeper/Administrator role to support our offsite Accountants to ensure everything runs accurately & smoothly, as well as the daily Admin tasks with invoicing and bill inputs within our Xero accounts management system.

You will be responsible for working as part of a team to complete tasks such as producing the monthly management accounts, completing balance sheet and bank reconciliations, and making daily payments.

The Accounts Assistant role will involve:

· Run all daily accounting processes; of sales ledger, purchase ledger, cash posting, daily banking and all general ledger entries

· Bank postings and reconciliations alongside XERO

· Working out staff bonuses and commissions

· Weekly aged debt, WIP and purchase ledger reviews with the Finance director as well as cash monitoring

· Participate in the preparation’s stages of the weekly forecasting and identify any trends or anomalies to aid the General Manager on a timely basis

· Preparation of VAT returns

· Liaising with external accountants for year end

· Liaise with Accountants and provide year-end audit information

· Processing all documentation monthly to accurately record the profitability of the company.

· Monthly management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations

The ideal candidate will have:

· Being commercially minded as well as having a hands-on personality is essential to this role and our business, previous experience with dealership accounts, bookkeeping and administration would be an advantage.

· Ability to make positive recommendations and drive towards any improvements

· A Team Player with the ability to work on their own initiative

· An excellent eye for detail

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 12 per week

Salary: £11.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Newcastle Upon Tyne: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Accounting: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person