An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced and proactive part-time Accounts Assistant to join a growing, established organisation based in Gateshead. The role can be worked over 3 days or 5, to suit your needs.
Working closely with the Head of Finance, you will play an important role in supporting the day-to-day running of the finance function. This is a varied position covering both accounts receivable and accounts payable, with a particular focus on purchase ledger, credit control and debtor management.
This would suit someone who is highly organised, confident communicating with customers and enjoys taking ownership of their workload in a busy finance environment.
The Role
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing and monitoring aged debtors and outstanding customer balances
- Chasing overdue payments professionally via telephone, email and statements
- Resolving invoice and billing queries to support the timely collection of payments
- Raising, checking and issuing customer sales invoices
- Processing and verifying supplier invoices
- Matching purchase orders against invoices and investigating discrepancies
- Completing bank reconciliations
- Reconciling corporate credit card transactions and receipts
- Processing and cross-checking employee expenses
- Maintaining accurate financial records, spreadsheets and digital filing systems
- Supporting the wider finance team with month-end preparation and financial administration
- Responding to day-to-day finance queries from internal colleagues and external suppliers
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- Around 1 3 years' experience within bookkeeping, accounts or a similar finance role
- Proven experience of purchase ledger, credit control and chasing outstanding payments
- Strong experience using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel
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Accounts Assistant (Part-time) in North East employer: BMC Recruitment Group Ltd
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