Accounts Assistant

Are you an experienced finance professional, passionate about customer service? Are you looking to join a team where you will be encouraged to learn and grow?

About the role

As a key member of our finance team, you will be focused on providing the highest standards of customer care and an efficient and accurate service to our colleagues and other stakeholders. Each day will bring different challenges so you should be prepared to get involved in a wide variety of tasks.

This will include:

• transactional processing across sales and purchase ledgers.

• bank reconciliations, cashbook entry, dealing with petty cash.

• overseeing the use of the company credit cards, managing the company expenses process and purchase ledger.

• assist the finance team with month end KPI production and assist the wider company with finance queries.

• payment and receipt allocations.

“Turley is a great company to work for, I have always had the help and encouragement to develop my skills and knowledge, and the team are fantastic to work with"

Tomas Bulla, Assistant Accountant

About You

The Accounts Assistant will demonstrate an ability to work proactively and as part of a team, strong communication skills and an ability to manage your own workload and prioritise tasks effectively. Excellent attention to detail, advanced Excel skills and knowledge of other MS Office packages is essential.

The ideal Accounts Assistant will be AAT qualified (or working towards this or an equivalent qualification) and have a good level of experience in a similar role within a small to medium size company, ideally in a professional services environment. Study support for further financial qualification is available.

Why work for Turley?

We are trusted independent advisors with restless ambition to shape a more sustainable future.

We work collaboratively with our clients to deliver places and communities that thrive. We combine professional expertise with in-depth market knowledge and deploy our services — Business Cases and Funding, Design, Economics, EIA, Expert Witness, Heritage, Townscape and Landscape, Planning, Strategic Communications, and Sustainability and ESG — individually or collectively to meet client needs in the most effective way.

We offer excellent remuneration and a flexible benefits package including medical insurance, pension, flexible working allowance, ownership dividend and performance-related bonus.

Turley operates a blended flexible working model, allowing co-owners choice, freedom, and flexibility. This role will be mainly office based but with the opportunity for occasional remote working by prior agreement. We are happy to talk about flexible working options in more detail during the recruitment process.

We are committed to ensuring people, places and the planet can thrive.

We know that actions speak louder than words. As a business, and through our client work, we strive to make a meaningful impact. This is how we are shaping a more sustainable future.

We have been CarbonNeutral® certified since 2018; achieved Bronze Carbon Literate Organisation accreditation in 2023; and are working towards B Corp status.

Driven by our purpose, we believe in using business as a force for good, including generating value for our clients and profits for our co-owners.

Our aim is to be an even more diverse, equitable and inclusive company; we celebrate difference and we're actively building more diverse teams. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of background and personal circumstances who meet the criteria set out above. We would love for you to join an organisation that enables you to thrive. If you need any assistance during the recruitment process or we can put in any adjustments to support you, please contact Turley’s People & Culture team ([email protected]).

If you think that Turley could be right for you, please apply in confidence by following the Apply Now link below or email [email protected], providing your CV and a covering letter.

We welcome applications directly and would prefer not to receive CVs from recruitment agencies.

The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment.