Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant required for an exciting temporary to permanent role based in central Birmingham. The role is responsible for assisting the Finance Manager with the running of the Accounts department. Accounts Assistant Key Duties & Responsibilities :

• Posting cash received to customer account
• Reconciling customer payments to invoices
• Updating & reconciling cash book to nominal sales ledger
• Checking and printing delivery notes for despatch of goods for Spares / MANP/service
• Processing of sales Invoices for all departments
• Setting up new sales ledger accounts and maintaining information on the Sales Ledger
• Assisting other staff where necessary and dealing with any queries from customers / internal sources
• Checks/ confirms credit rating for new customs
• Dealing with Bank Guarantees
• Checking & posting of timecards for production hours
• Entering timecards to spreadsheet and reconciling the costing on the ledger.
• Liaise with customers
• Liaise with Auditors / Audit preparations
• Liaise with Banks
• Maintains staff absence and holiday records,
• Authorising / checking payment runs before processing through the Bank
• Once payments runs are set up on the Bank, check / authorise the payment online
• Release the online payments.
• Prepares & analyses reports, detailing income & expenditure
• Manage customer accounts ensuring on-time payments are received
• Credit control
• Prepares / calculates overtime for payroll system
• Processing the monthly payroll
• Checking / Authorising, salary payment once the payment has been set up on the bank
• Releasing payment through the Bank
• Preparing Payroll reports for the Inland revenue
• Issuing of payslips.
• Dealing with pension scheme (auto enrolment) and processing of payment to pension company
• Processing cost of sales for all departs.
• Nominal journal postings for all cost of sales reports
• Preparing Utilisation report, posting of distribution and overhead hours
• Calculation / posting of inter Company expense
• Calculation / posting intercompany profit.
• Prepares information and carries out month end postings
• Prepares all monthly reports for ATM, including consolidation.
• Preparation of monthly reports for MD
• Preparation of monthly reports for departmental heads
• Reconciliation of VAT returns to nominal ledgers.
• Cash collection
• Maintains office / workplace consumables stocks.
• Training

Key requirements :

• AAT Qualified (or equivalent)
• Minimum 3 Years within an accounts environment

Key Benefits :

• Starting pay will be c.£30,000
• Working hours are Monday to Thursday - 08.00 to 17.15 with ½ hour lunch / Friday - 8.00 to 13.00
• Holiday - 20 days per year with 3 days saved for Christmas
• Opportunity of promotion