Candidate Profile:
A proactive and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant responsible for supporting the day-to-day finance function a vehicle rental group business. Responsible for processing financial transactions, maintaining accurate records, reconciling accounts, and supporting month-end activities while ensuring compliance with company procedures.
Job Summary
Reporting directly to the Finance Manager, the Accounts Assistant is responsible for the accurate processing and maintenance of financial records across the business. The role involves managing purchase and sales ledger activities, processing supplier invoices, posting financial transactions, reconciling accounts, and supporting the preparation of financial information. The position also includes managing customer accounts, monitoring outstanding debts, carrying out customer credit checks and customer due diligence, maintaining customer records, and ensuring the timely collection of monies owed to minimise bad debt exposure. The Accounts Assistant will help maintain the accuracy and integrity of the accounting system and ensure financial data is processed in a timely and efficient manner.
Main Duties
- Process purchase and sales ledger transactions.
- Process and reconcile daily cash transactions, ensuring all receipts and payments are accurately recorded in the accounting system.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Reconciles supplier statements.
- Process and administer penalty charges, ensuring costs are accurately recorded and allocated to the appropriate customer, vehicle, or cost centre.
- Prepared and sent monthly customer statements.
- Daily Credit Control duties and resolving queries.
- Internal group recharges.
- Import entries to accounts system.
- Updating weekly cash actuals and assisting in cash forecasting.
- Intercompany Reconciliation.
- Process and post expenses in line with company procedures.
- Prepare and process monthly payment runs, ensuring supplier payments are made accurately and within agreed payment terms.
- Perform customer credit checks and further due diligence.
- Makes recommendations to improve processes, procedures, and productivity.
- Ad Hoc Duties
The Company:
Founded in 1934, Measom is one of the UK’s leading drywall contractors, specialising in partitions, ceilings, SFS, plastering, glazed screens & doors, and fire-stopping. We work across residential, commercial, healthcare, the Ministry of Justice and education, partnering with major developers and contractors like Multiplex, Bovis, Kier, and Sir Robert McAlpine. Our teams have helped deliver some of the UK’s most high-profile projects, including The Shard, Co-Op Live Arena, and Battersea Power Station.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Leicester LE4 5JD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Experience with Microsoft packages and proficient with Excel required
Education:
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
