Accounts Assistant - Accounts Payable & Receivable

Role Overview & Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have experience of working within a small busy Finance Team as well as being able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with non-finance staff.

The right candidate will be process-driven with a good degree of flexibility, initiative, and common sense. A team player with a positive outlook and a can-do attitude who can take ownership of a task and see it through to completion. As we use Xero, previous experience of this will be an advantage.

You will be a diligent self-starter, able to demonstrate organisational skills and a keen eye for detail. Reconciling ledgers, you will need to be confident in your abilities to communicate and solve problems as they arise.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

· Processing and analysing Purchase Ledger invoices.

· Providing information, resolving internal and external queries.

· Month-end purchase ledger procedures, reconciliations and analysis.

· Produce supplier payment runs each Friday morning.

· Manage internal and external queries.

· Debtor chasing, relationship management with our customers

· Resolving queries and updating Sales Invoices as and when required.

· Maintain and update supplier details on Xero

Essential Requirements:

· Experience in an Accounts Payable capacity.

· A sound understanding of accounting practices.

· Excellent communication skills, both verbal & written.

· Must be numerical and comfortable handling data.

· Capable of working within a busy team, so it is important that you are well organised and adaptable.

Job Types: Full-time, Freelance

Salary: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Eastbourne: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• purchase ledger: 1 year (preferred)
• Accounts payable: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person