Job Title: Accounts Assistant
Location: Livingston
Contract: Full time, (Temporary, 9 months maternity cover)
Hourly rate: £12 – 14.50
AJ Connect is thrilled to be representing an exciting sports retail business, based in Livingston, for a Accounts Assistant position.
The postholder will be responsible for the monthly management accounts: purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank reconciliation, prepayments, and accruals.
The role is a perfect opportunity, for an immediately available Accounts Assistant looking to join an interesting sports retail business on a 9-month maternity cover basis.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Prepayments & Accruals
- P&L / Balance Sheet make up
- Journal postings to nominal ledger
- Twice monthly run of posting purchase and sales invoices
- Central Invoice queries - liaise with suppliers
- Process BACS Payments Collections/Supplier Payments twice monthly
- Supplier statement reconciliation
- Turnover downloads for central invoice (quarterly after reconciliation)
- Setting up of new Partner/Supplier accounts
- Purchase Ledger Input
- Sales Ledger Input
- Bank Reconciliations
- Petty Cash Reconciliation
- Processing Staff Expenses
- Credit Card expenses - data input from receipts - journal
- Debtors - sending statements and chase if needed
Skills and Experience
- Experience working in a similar role essential
- High levels of accuracy
- Knowledge of accounting software
- Personable/friendly and professional
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent timekeeping
- Basic knowledge of VAT
- A solid understanding of Excel