Job Description
Accounts Assistant - Motor Trade - Wakefield
Essentials (You Must Have):
- Proven experience supporting finance operations across multi-sites
- Strong capability in ledger management and account reconciliation
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively
As an Accounts Assistant, you will support our brands by carrying out a wide range of core finance tasks, including managing sales and purchase ledgers, processing transactions, reconciling accounts, and assisting with month‑end activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Sales ledger duties: posting bank transactions, credit control, and following up debtor queries with departmental managers and customers
- Nominal ledger: posting bank, intercompany and other nominal ledger journals
- Assisting with month‑end close processes and resolving related queries on all ledgers, vehicles, sales and purchase.
- Responding promptly to internal and external finance queries, checking and paying urgent payment requested and customer settlements.
- Maintaining accurate financial records, documentation, and filing systems.
About You:
- Excellent numeracy skills with strong attention to detail
- Minimum of Level 2 AAT qualified
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word)
- Experience working under pressure while maintaining high levels of accuracy
- Confident handling queries face‑to‑face, over the phone, and via email
- Previous experience in a similar Accounts Assistant role, ideally within a fast‑paced, multi‑site business
Why Riverside?
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Employee CBS scheme
- Staff discounts
- Bonus
- Prestige workspace
- Refer a friend
- Cycle to work scheme
- Career opportunities across the Group
Working hours: Monday-Friday - 08:30-17:00pm (40 hours per week)
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, click Apply today.
We're actively interviewing candidates and look forward to hearing from you.
Experience:
- Accounting: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
