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Accounts Assistant
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Where
Stockport
What
Accounting
Type
Permanent
Salary
32000 Annual
Duties
Your new company
A well-established and expanding business in Stockport is seeking a motivated, highly organised Accounts Assistant to join its finance function. This position is practical and hands-on, giving you responsibility for a broad range of day-to-day accounting activities and contributing to the accuracy and integrity of the company's financial records.
Your new role
In this role, you will help ensure the finance department operates efficiently by overseeing key transactional duties, including:
- Managing daily banking tasks, monitoring several bank accounts, and carrying out regular reconciliations
- Handling weekly Stripe and Sage Pay posting
- Sales Ledger: performing customer credit checks, producing daily invoices, issuing credit notes, overseeing credit control, handling queries, preparing statements, processing card payments, and supporting Letters of Credit
- Purchase Ledger: onboarding new suppliers, coding and processing invoices, resolving supplier issues, and carrying out statement reconciliations
- Supporting HMRC compliance and contributing to quarterly VAT return preparation
- Providing end-to-end finance support
- Administering the employee expenses process, including the approval cycle
- Assisting with month-end routines such as bank reconciliations, rebate calculations, carriage costs, inter-company recharges, and balance sheet reconciliations
- Credit Control tasks ensuring overdue/debtor days remains to a minimum and cash flow buoyant.
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What you'll need to succeed
The ideal candidate:-
- Has excellent attention to detail while working efficiently and accurately
- Enjoys identifying solutions and enhancing processes
- Communicates clearly and keeps colleagues well informed
- Can manage routine tasks while understanding their impact on the wider business
- Works well in a dynamic, team-driven environment
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365 (essential)
- Previous experience with Sage 50 (highly advantageous)
- Experience within SME finance teams
- Good knowledge of the full finance workflow-AP, AR, credit control, reconciliations, reporting and compliance
- Exceptional organisational and communication abilities
- A proactive mindset with strong ownership of responsibilities
- AAT or equivalent practical experience
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What you need to do now
- Competitive salary
- Monday to Thursday - 8am-5pm, Friday 8-3.30pm
- 1-day WFH after probation
- 20 days holiday, + bank holidays + Xmas break (not taken from allowance) + birthday off
- Free car parking provided on site
- Free breakfast on Fridays
- 3PM finish on Fridays
- Close to local road and rail networks
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