Join Our Team as a Trainee Accounts Payable and Receivable Assistant
Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Are you passionate about finance and delivering excellent service? Would you like to join a growing, award-winning business that offers a supportive and collaborative working environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
Due to continued growth, we are looking for a Trainee Accounts Payable & Receivable Assistant to join our Finance team.
This role will support Procentia across a range of accounts payable and receivable activities, including invoice processing, payment support, sales invoicing, expense reviews, debtor management, and maintaining financial systems. You will also provide support across the wider Brightwell finance function and assist other group entities when required.
What you’ll do:
- Process and code purchase invoices, supporting supplier payment runs and resolving finance-related queries.
- Manage corporate credit card transactions and employee expense claims, ensuring compliance with company policies and controls.
- Raise sales invoices, respond to invoice queries, reconcile debtor accounts, and follow up on outstanding payments.
- Assist with month-end processes, including cashbook preparation and journal reviews.
- Maintain accurate supplier, employee, and financial coding records within finance systems.
- Provide support to users of Sysynkt and SunSystems, including system queries, issue resolution, testing, and updates.
- Support Finance colleagues and provide cover across group entities as required.
- Work collaboratively with the wider business to resolve queries and support efficient financial processes.
- Take ownership of personal development, building knowledge across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, expenses, and finance systems.
This role would suit someone with:
Essential knowledge, skills & experience:
- Good Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
- Strong attention to detail and able to process information accurately.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with confidence to follow up queries and missing information.
- Organised, proactive and able to manage routine tasks to agreed deadlines.
- Good team player to support colleagues across Finance
- Ability and willingness to learn within a Finance role
Desirable knowledge, skills & experience:
- Relevant degree or previous experience in an account payable, accounts receivable or finance administration role.
- Able to learn and use new finance systems quickly and confidently.
- Experience of supporting corporate credit card or employee expense processes.
- Experience of debtor chasing or routine sales invoicing.
- Experience of supporting system users, testing changes or raising system issues.
- Studying towards, or interested in starting, a relevant finance qualification.
Why Brightwell?
As a Brightwell colleague, you will enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work practices, professional development, career development, and a great benefits package including:
- Annual performance bonus of up to 7%.
- 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 with service) plus bank holidays.
- A pension with 15-17% employer contributions (depending on age).
- 8 x salary Life Insurance.
- Generous family friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks full pay (maternity, adoption and paternity leave)
- Free health assessments.
- Health cash plan.
- Professional study support.
- Employee Assistance Programme and free Wellhub wellness network platform access.
- Free parking.
Building an inclusive work environment:
Brightwell is committed to developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, ensuring that behaviours, working practices, and policies promote fair treatment and access to development opportunities for every colleague. We value the benefits a diverse workforce can bring and want Brightwell to be a place where all colleagues can thrive, feel that they belong, are valued, and contribute to our success. This is underpinned by Brightwell’s RISE corporate values: Responsible, Impactful, Supportive & Expert.
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