Accounts Assistant
The role of Accounts Assistant:
- Updating all purchase orders and purchase invoices
- Liaising with suppliers when discrepancies occur
- Creating sales orders and sales invoices
- Carrying out all necessary checks for customer credit account applications
- Responding to customer and supplier enquiries and queries
- Issuing customer statements
- Chasing customers for payment and keeping accurate records of correspondence
- Reconciliation of supplier and customer accounts
- Using Excel to record information
- Designing and producing monthly and ad hoc reports
- Supporting the wider team with month-end duties including journals
- Filing and performing other duties as required
The ideal Accounts Assistant:
- Minimum 2 years' experience working in an accounts department
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Confident telephone manner for resolving queries
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Strong numeracy skills and attention to detail
- Able to prioritise own workload with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of Sage 50 desirable but not essential
