Senior Accounts Assistant

Salary: £16.38 – £19.14 per hour

This award-winning tech company based in Guildford, are looking for a Senior Accounts Assistant to join their busy, friendly organisation, starting immediately on a temp to perm basis. The client is offering a flexible hybrid working pattern for this full-time role and would suit an experienced bookkeeper who has excellent Excel skills and is available immediately.

Full time Senior Accounts Assistant – About the Role

You will assist both the Finance team and the Treasury team to support the business through the delivery of payment operations and maintenance of the accounting records.

You will be responsible for preparing, executing, and recording daily and weekly merchant payments. In addition to this the role will help assist the Finance team with general accounting housekeeping and reconciliations. Your key responsibilities will be:

• Preparation, processing and recording of daily and weekly payment to the customers
• Inputting payments into Company’s banking system
• Monitoring and administrating bank returns and rejects timeously
• Populating and reconciling settlement statements
• Posting accounting entries including sales and purchase invoices, currency contracts and journals to the Company’s accounting system
• Reconciliation of the e-money control accounts, debtors, and creditors monthly
• Respond to ad-hoc queries from management and suppliers

The successful Senior Accounts Assistant will have:

• Previous bookkeeping or Senior Accounts Assistant experience – knowledge up to trial balance
• Excellent Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookup, sumifs
• A self-motivated, collaborative, proactive approach 

Senior Accounts Assistant – Benefits

• Hybrid working pattern with some office and some homes-based days
• Pension scheme offering 9% company contribution
• Life insurance of 3 times your salary
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful.

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