Accounts / Finance Assistant / Clerk

My client is keen to recruit a motivated, dynamic and professional person to join its Finance team on an initial 10-month maternity cover contract. My client is a young, progressive business, and the successful candidate will have exposure to all areas of the finance department with the opportunity to gain a variety of experience, and drive the business forward.

Role and responsibilities

•Sales updates – download and circulate daily product sales reports

•Banking – log transactions, set up supplier payments

•Sales ledger – create and send invoices, monitor receipts, credit control

•Purchase ledger – analyse and log invoices in correct accounts

•Effective communication with customers and suppliers via telephone and email

•Digital reporting – collate, format and analyse weekly and monthly sales reports from all digital platforms

•Maintain schedule of new title acquisitions, manage related payments

•Maintain cashflow forecast

•Proactively identify and implement process improvements where appropriate, across all areas of the role

•Opportunity to develop skills and take on more responsibilities as you progress in the role

Skills

•Strong Excel user
•Superb attention to detail
•Highly organised, hard-working and professional
•Accounting experience / perhaps studying for an accounting qualification
•Experience with accounting software (QuickBooks ideal)
•A commercial outlook – assesses business implications of each area of the role and looks to improve processes and information available to senior management where possible

This is initially a 10 month maternity cover (looking to start someone by mid-July) with the potential to develop into a permanent role for the right person.