At a Glance
- Tasks: Support the finance team with processing invoices and reconciliations.
- Company: Join GBA Global Solutions, a leading family-owned logistics company.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work, holiday loyalty scheme, and learning opportunities.
- Other info: Enjoy excellent career growth in a supportive team environment.
- Why this job: Make an impact in a dynamic finance role within a top logistics company.
- Qualifications: Finance qualification preferred; experience in accounts payable is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 32000 £ per year.
Location: Hybrid / Brindley Pl, Birmingham B1 2JB, UK
Job Type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and Subsector: Supply Chain | Logistics
Annual Salary Range: from £28,000.00 to £31,000.00
Salary: £28,000 to £31,000 (FTE) (depending on skills and experience)
DAYS/HOURS: Monday - Friday 39 hours
BASE: Hybrid (2 to 3 Days in Birmingham office)
Role: An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive, and diligent accounts assistant to join our finance team. Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role will contribute significantly and give support to the processing of subcontractor (cost of sales) invoices, supplier (overheads) invoices, supplier payment runs, supplier statement reconciliations, and bank reconciliations. Working in collaboration with the Assistant Accountant, the operations team and department leads, this role will take the lead in ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of the transactional accounts payable process, giving support to the month end accounting and reporting process, with awareness of the impacts to the business’ cashflows and working capital requirement. The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience of working in the transport and logistics sector, or a similar environment.
Company: GBA Global Solutions provides 24/7/365 UK national and global coverage from two main control centres and two hubs, focussed on domestic and European aerospace & airside logistics services (branded as ‘GBA Skyway’), and global forwarding. GBA Global Solutions is part of the GBA Logistics group, which has been delivering logistics solutions since 1987 and is a leading family-owned logistics company, operating in the top 50 Logistics Companies in the UK with annual turnover in excess of £100m.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Receipt, allocation and posting of supplier invoices
- Purchase order processing for overhead invoices
- Weekly/monthly bank reconciliation
Key Skills & Experience:
- Ideally, we would like you to have a recognised finance or accounting qualification (e.g. AAT)
- Purchase ledger – process supplier invoices and manage supplier communication
- Ledger/control account, and bank reconciliations
- Communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Use of various accounting & reporting software systems (Sage)
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
Holiday loyalty scheme
Learning and Development opportunities
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