Hawthorn One
Accounts Assistant
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About the Company
Our client is a privately owned SME in West Lancashire, near Eccles. The business has invested (and continues to invest) heavily in modern systems, automation, and data, and is now entering a more structured phase of growth. The business is backed by a long-term investor that focuses on building robust, well-run businesses and is focused on commercial discipline, operational performance, and sustainable profitability.
The Accounts Assistant Job
Reporting to the supportive and very personable Head of Finance, you will work in a small office environment and act as a strong number 2. You will take on all the day-to-day transactional finance to free the head of finance up to focus on higher-level commercial finance and automation work, and support with some ad hoc projects.
- Responsibilities include:
- Taking full ownership of the sales invoicing, processing, and sending ready invoices through Xero each week, then chasing down whatever's needed to get the next batch ready to go.
- Carrying out daily bank reconciliations across the main accounts, credit cards, and an invoice finance facility.
- Managing a purchase ledger of supplier invoices, making sure everything is coded correctly before it's processed.
- Supporting payroll on a weekly and monthly basis: timesheets, overtime, allowances, and various deductions (under guidance).
- Running regular reports using pivot tables and lookups that feed into the wider team's KPI tracking and cash flow planning.
- Covering credit control, which covers a relatively clean, manageable customer ledger, mostly automated, with a smaller number of customers needing a more personal follow-up call now and then.
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This Accounts Assistant Job sits at the center of a small, fast-moving team, hence there is plenty of scope to get involved in the wider automation and improvement projects already underway along with additional month-end duties as you develop to support the Head of Finance if desired.
The Requirements
Your behaviors, values, attitude, and approach matter just as much as your experience in this position due to the close-knit team. You don't need to be fully AAT qualified for this role—progress toward it would be a genuine plus, but what matters most is solid, practical transactional finance experience and the confidence and positivity to fit into a small, fast-moving team.
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- Experience in a transactional finance role, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc.
- Skills:
- Strong, confident Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and data cleaning.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- The ability to organize your own workload in a fast-moving SME environment.
- Reliable, calm, and organized, with a positive, supportive working style and a genuine team-first attitude.
- Curious about how the wider business works, with a get-stuck-in approach to helping it improve.
The Rewards
- Salary is up to £32,000, depending on experience.
- Benefits:
- Workplace pension.
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
- Access to wellbeing support and virtual GP appointments through the company's HR platform.
- Further benefits under review.
- Development:
- AAT and CIMA study support are both genuinely available for anyone who wants to develop in that direction, and equally, there's no pressure to if you're happy focusing on the role as it is.
This role is exclusive to Hawthorn One, and a full job details document will be provided.
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