Senior Accounts Assistant
Oldham, Greater Manchester
Monday - Friday
40hrs
Benefits
� Pension Scheme
� 25+8 Annual Leave
� Company Bonus Scheme
� Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
Job Summary
Supporting and reporting to the Finance Manager, this role will contribute and support all the day-to-day functions of a busy Finance department and provide support for the completion of monthly and year end accounts, management reporting into UK Leadership & US parent company and support interesting ad-hoc projects / initiatives. This is a varied hands-on role working within a small team, so a can-do attitude and experience of general accounts duties/processing is essential along with a good understanding of management accounting.
Key Responsibilities and Involvements:
� Bank transaction processing inc Reconciliations for multiple currency accounts
� Credit Control management inc liaising with Customer Service, taking a proactive approach to ensure potential issues are resolved in advance of planned despatch
� Sales Ledger including allocating receipts and reconciliations
� Purchase Ledger including Invoice processing, matching to GRN/PO, Statement reconciliation
� Planned Payments and processing
� Expenses management and processing
� Fixed Asset Management inc additions/disposals and monthly depreciation calculations
� Support the Finance Manager with month-end closure inc preparation and processing of Journals for Prepayments/Accruals
� Maintaining schedules to support the Trial Balance
� Assist with year-end statutory audit and tax reporting for US based parent company
� Assist with VAT reporting and reconciliations
� Management Information production
� Ad hoc reporting
Key Skills, Experiences and Attitudes:
� MAAT or qualified by experience
� Experience within a similar role with knowledge and experience of Average/Standard Costing is desirable
� Experience within the Manufacturing sector is desirable
� Ability to use Microsoft Excel inc Pivot Tables and Lookups
� Experience of Microsoft Dynamics Navision is desirable
� Ability to prioritise with keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy
� Experience of working with multiple currency transactions
� Good understanding of VAT
� Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
Keywords -Bookkeeper, Accountant, AAT, VAT, Finance Assistant, Accounts Analyst, Assistant Management Accountant
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