Assistant Accountant / Bookkeeper

We are working with a well-established client within the logistics sector who are currently seeking an experienced Assistant Accountant/Bookkeeper to join them on a permanent basis. This is a full-time office based role, 8.30am - 17.30 pm Mon - Fri where you will be working within a friendly team providing accounting suppport to the Financial Controller and Directors. Typical duties will involve the following:

• Work closely with existing team to ensure accounting records are maintained on a timely and accurate basis for the company and associated companies
• Manage the Accounts Mailbox and ensure emails are dealt with correctly and efficiently
• Reviewing and posting credit card transactions & employee expenses onto financial software
• Managing Sales and Purchase Invoice queries
• Making supplier payments
• Bank reconciliations
• Creating & maintaining customer and supplier records on multiple systems
• Management of customer credit limits, including applying, increasing, cancelling credit limits though our trade credit portal
• Running credit checks
• Ad hoc sales invoicing
• Credit control, allocating customer receipts, sending statements
• Process customer & supplier transactions
• Issuing and updating purchase orders
• Processing purchase invoices and checking supplier statements
• Processing contrass
• Post journal entries, Use control accounts
• Assist Financial Controller with VAT Returns, Month End (including balance sheet reconciliations, maintenance of Prepayments & Accruals, Management accounts variance analysis) and Year End closedowns
• Run cost saving exercises
• Assist the Financial Controller, Directors and/or Management with ad hoc tasks and projects

You will ideally have at least three years experience in a similar role and hold an AAT qualification as well as having good knowledge of Sage Line 50.

If this role is of interest, please apply with a copy of your most recent CV.