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.