Accounts Assistant

We are working with a business in Stafford who are looking to recruit an Accounts Assistant who has Sage experience and has covered the below duties.

The business has 9 companies in their group that you will complete accountancy tasks for.

This Sales Ledger – All Companies
1. Creation and posting of Statements.
2. Month End Closure of Ledger.

Credit Control – All Companies
1. Chasing outstanding balances and obtaining payment dates.
2. Working with colleagues regarding queries and resolving them.
3. Working with Directors regarding placing accounts on stop.

Purchase Ledger – All Companies
1. Creating of new accounts as required, including proactively obtaining contact details & bank account details.
2. Returning purchase invoices with incorrect, no p/o, or incorrect company.
3. Posting of purchase invoices to the ledger in a predefined manner.
4. Reconciliations of purchase ledger statements including obtaining copy invoices and dealing with queries.
5. Handling supplier queries, regarding payment dates.
6. Daily review of the accounts@ email address and taking necessary actions.
7. Creation and processing of Monthly Payment Run.
8. Issuing of Remittance Advices, where appropriate.
9. Month End Closure of Ledger.

Cash Book – All Companies
1. Posting of receipts and payments including allocations.
2. Obtaining missing invoices/credit notes.
3. Posting of HP interest Demands.
4. Weekly Reconciliation of ALL bank accounts.
5. Month End Closure of Ledger.

Payroll
1. Verification and analysis of time sheets & expenses.
2. Recording of Expenses on year end analysis.

Other – All Companies
1. Answering the Telephone & passing Calls on as necessary.
2. Raising purchase order.
3. Daily accessing the online banking system, creating payments & approving payments.
4. Foreign currency payments.
5. Assisting the Accountant in Month End & Year Accounts.

Systems
SAGE 200, Excel 2013, Word, Online Banking System