Accounts Assistant - Fowlmere in Royston

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant for our brilliant client based at their site in rural Cambridgeshire, close to Royston. This is a full-time, permanent role, based on site in Fowlmere. The company is a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced gas detection instrumentation and sensing technologies for a vast range of industries. With a commitment to innovation, quality and safety, the company empowers industries worldwide to enhance workplace environments and safeguard lives. They have grown steadily and consistently since they started over 30 years ago and offer a superb place to work, thrive and be part of something truly exciting. Having recently won the Queen's Award for Enterprise within the innovation category, the company's values are at the core of everything they do. With each recruit as they grow, they are seeking like-minded people to help build on the success which they already enjoy.

The Role

Working within the Finance team and reporting to the Financial Controller, the role will cover the accounts for two companies within the group. Duties and Responsibilities will include:

• Credit control, including setting credit limits
• Input new customer and supplier details into the accounting system
• Preparation of fortnightly and ad-hoc payment runs on the banking systems, and allocation of those payments onto the accounting system
• Credit card claims
• Processing of employee expenses
• Processing sales invoices in SAP, sending dispatch documents to customers and creating delivery notes
• Assist with supplier, customer and internal team queries by email and phone
• Bank reconciliation
• Reconciling debtor and creditor ledgers
• Support and cover over team members, including some supplier invoice processing

Potential opportunities to grow/develop:

• Maintaining the fixed asset register and journalling depreciation
• Month end repayments, accruals, deferred income
• Preparation of VAT returns
• Review of GRNI and open deliveries
• Collate information for, and assist with year-end audit

The Person

For this role, we are seeking an organised individual ideally who has some previous experience within an Accounts Department and the following skills and experience:

• Experience of working within credit control
• Accounts payable experience
• Previous experience of banking
• Ideally either AAT or bookkeeping qualifications
• Experience with SAP Business 1 would also be desirable
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work under pressure and to multitask
• Good attention to detail

Details

This role is offered on a full-time, permanent basis and the working hours are 37.5 hours a week: Monday – Thursday 08:30 – 17:00 and Friday 08:30 – 15:45 (with 45 min unpaid lunch). The salary offered is depending on experience and offers some excellent benefits as well as the opportunity to progress and grow within the business. There are regular social events and get-togethers, as well as some great benefits too.

How to Apply

Please apply to Gemma Turp through our website or alternatively, you can email a copy of your CV to gemma@horizoneast.co.uk. We aim to respond with specific feedback to every applicant via email within 14 days. However, as we are a small two-person independent agency, if we are extremely busy this may take longer. If you would like feedback sooner, then feel free to contact us via email and we will come back to you ASAP.

About Horizon

Horizon Search and Selection Ltd is owned and run by Gemma and Kate from our private offices in Bury St Edmunds. We’ve been in business for 12 years but have a combined 30 years’ recruitment experience between us. We’re friendly recruitment folks and love what we do. Here, we are acting as an employment agency on behalf of our client, the employer. We act as the ‘introducers’, so if you are successful, you will be directly employed by our client. We never share your details with anyone (including our client) without your consent.

GDPR

Please note that all applications and enquiries are treated in the strictest of confidence. As part of our GDPR compliance, your CV and contact details will not be held by us for longer than 30 days unless written consent to do so is requested and obtained. Your CV and contact details will never be shared by us with a third party unless specific consent has been obtained to do so.