Full Time
35 hours per week: 09.00 - 17.00 / Monday to Friday
Based at our Ashton Road site in Hyde. We are recruiting for an Finance Assistant (Fixed Term – 12 months)
As our Finance Assistant you will support the Company’s Finance department, Company Accountant and Financial Controller.
If successful you will complete a three-month probation period.
Main Responsibilities & Duties
• Collating documentation to support journal transactions for expenditure and sales in profit and loss accounts.
• Creating a monthly profit and loss expenditure analysis pack for review by senior management.
• Prepare and post monthly recurring journals for specified Balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
• Preparing monthly sales breakdown report.
• Calculating and preparing monthly sales commissions.
• Prepare and post inter-company journals, ensuring all figures are agreed by agreed deadlines.
• Maintaining cashbooks and credit card receipts – including downloading bank statements, recording bank statement transactions, posting all currency sales ledger and nominal items on a daily basis.
• Ensure all purchase ledger items are complete to enable daily posting.
• Reconcile all bank accounts on a daily basis.
• Review and reconcile Petty Cash book and cash on a weekly basis.
• Liaise with department heads to obtain approval for supplier payments.
• Ensuring there are adequate levels of currency to cover supplier payments.
• Completing reports for inclusion in the Board report.
• Issuing foreign currency to staff, ensuring sufficient levels of currency.
• Recognise, prepare and produce prepayments and accruals and reconciling weekly.
• Coding and posting journals.
• Producing payment sheets for Assistant Company Accountant, including employee expenses.
• Providing cover for Finance Assistants.
• Ad hoc duties as required.
Essential Criteria:
• To be AAT qualified level 4 or equivalent.
• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge.
• Accurate, organised, and able to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of sales and expenditure analysis.
• Experience of working with allocating concepts i.e, accruals and prepayments.