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Accounts Assistant
Reporting to: Financial Controller
We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to support our Finance function. This is a varied, hands-on role covering payroll-related finance processes, billing, reconciliations, banking, credit control, and ledger activities. You’ll help to maintain accurate financial records, resolve discrepancies, and ensure key finance processes are completed accurately and on time.
What You’ll Be Doing
Operational Finance
- Support weekly payroll processes, including BACS, wage and sales imports, margin reconciliations, and funding information.
- Complete payroll and finance reconciliations, including PAYE, VAT, holiday pay, advances, and associated control accounts.
- Process Sage transactions, including allocations, reallocations, refunds, and supplier account matching.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences, suspense items, and operational finance queries.
- Support weekly and monthly finance controls, checklists, and procedures.
Billing & Sales Ledger
- Raise customer invoices across various platforms and complete monthly billing cycles.
- Liaise with internal teams to resolve discrepancies and support accurate revenue recognition.
- Maintain accurate sales ledger records and support related transactional finance activities.
- Credit control duties
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Banking and Reconciliations
- Post and reconcile high-volume bank transactions, ensuring payments are accurately allocated.
- Investigate and resolve unreconciled items in collaboration with internal departments.
- Respond to customer billing queries professionally and clearly.
We’d love to Hear from Someone That
- Has strong practical payroll experience and a good understanding of payroll processes and associated finance reconciliations.
- Brings experience in high-volume transactional finance, including billing, reconciliations, and ledger management.
- Has experience investigating and resolving financial discrepancies.
- Is proficient in Excel, including formulas, lookups, SUMIFs, and pivot tables.
- Has excellent attention to detail and a proactive, solution-focused approach.
- Communicates confidently and professionally across teams.
- Can manage competing priorities
- Ideally has experience working across multiple entities or within a group structure.
- Has working knowledge of systems such as Sage 50, Xero, or Sage Accounting.
- Is available to support outside normal office hours (within reason) on occasion, potentially from home.
- Is comfortable in a fast-paced working environment.
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What’s Next? Our recruitment team will be in touch for an initial screening call if your application is shortlisted. Please note that due to high application volumes, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually.
What We Can Offer You
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with service, plus bank holidays
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Awards
- Long Service Recognition
- Spectrum Life
- Annual Pay Review
- Employee Referral Scheme
Brand: Workwell Outsourcing
Territory: EMEA
Location: Otley, United Kingdom
Salary: £27,000 - £32,000
Workplace: Hybrid
Experience: Mid
Hours: Mon – Fri
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