Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

Job Description

Are you ready to be a vital part of an established online ethical retailer?

Spark Etail is a leading full-service online retailer seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as an accounts assistant at our Gateshead location.

As an accounts assistant, you will play a crucial role in our financial operations.

Your responsibilities will include handling day-to-day accounting tasks, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

Join our passionate team as we continue to grow and contribute to a sustainable and ethical future.

Key Responsibilities

The duties of this accounts assistant role include but are not limited too:

  • Daily management reporting and sales reconciliations
  • Bank postings and reconciliations
  • Sales ledger posting
  • Purchase invoice processing
  • Supplier statement reconciliations
  • Resolution of any internal and supplier queries
  • Weekly supplier payment runs
  • Management of the purchase, sales and nominal ledgers
  • Month-end nominal ledger journal postings – eg. accruals, prepayments, and depreciation.
  • Monthly management accounts preparation

If you have experience in accounts, accounting, finance, ATT, P & L, pay runs, CIMA, ledgers, balance sheet reconciliations, Excel, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, SUMIFS, bank reconciliations, analysis, and reporting, apply for this accounts assistant role today!

Benefits

  • Enhanced annual leave entitlement, starting at 31 days
  • Access to our prestige benefits and rewards portal
  • Long service rewards, both financial and leave-based
  • Health cash plan
  • Life assurance scheme
  • Career development opportunities
  • Access to a well-established Employee Assistance Programme Provider
  • And other excellent benefits you’d expect from a market leader

Working Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:30.

Essential Skills

Required skills:

  • AAT/Bookkeeping experience
  • Strong Excel skills are essential
  • Knowledge of Sage50 is preferable
  • Confident using Teams or similar
  • Able to work without continuous supervision but also as part of a wider (non-finance) team
  • Overseeing non-finance colleagues with their ledger interactions

About Company

Spark Etail is a leading online retailer selling the widest range of fair trade, organic, and eco-friendly products featuring the UK’s best ethical brands.

Spark Etail is part of the Whistl Group. Whistl is a delivery management company providing efficient, high-quality and competitively priced services across business mail, parcels, fulfilment and doordrop media in the UK and internationally. Distributing more than 4 billion items annually, we are market leaders in Downstream Access Mail (DSA) services, handling over 50% of bulk business mail in the UK.

Whistl is a Disability Confident employer committed to equal opportunities for all in all our employment policies and practices.

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