Accounts Assistant (Purchase Ledger & Credit Control) in Manchester

Accounts Assistant (Purchase Ledger & Credit Control)

🌍 Manchester – Trafford Park
💰 £26,436.80pa
⏰ Mon – Fri - 9:00 - 5:30 (40 hours)

📓 Your Role's Purpose

Are you an organised and detail-focused finance professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment? Do you have experience of managing supplier invoices whilst confidently maintaining customer accounts and credit control processes?

Coolfreeze is looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our team based in Manchester. This is a varied role that combines responsibility for both purchase ledger and credit control, making it ideal for someone who enjoys taking ownership, building strong relationships and ensuring financial processes run smoothly.

Reporting into the Finance Team based in Wiltshire and with a dotted line into the site’s Managing Director, you will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, supporting cash flow management and ensuring suppliers and customers receive a first-class service.

This is a hands-on position requiring someone who is robust, organised and able to manage competing priorities while maintaining excellent attention to detail.

💡Where You’ll Add Value

Purchase Ledger

• Processing supplier invoices accurately and efficiently
• Matching invoices to purchase orders and resolving discrepancies
• Managing supplier statement reconciliations
• Preparing payment runs in line with agreed schedules
• Building strong relationships with suppliers and responding to queries promptly
• Maintaining accurate financial records and documentation

Credit Control

• Monitoring customer accounts and outstanding balances
• Chasing overdue payments professionally and effectively
• Resolving customer account queries and disputes
• Producing aged debt reports and escalating concerns where required
• Supporting cash collection targets and improving debtor days
• Maintaining accurate records of all customer communications

⚙️ Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:

• Must have Kerridge/Autoline expertise
• Has experience within an accounts or finance
• Has previous purchase ledger and credit control experience
• Is highly organised with excellent attention to detail
• Is confident communicating with team members, customers and suppliers
• Can manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines
• Is resilient and able to handle difficult conversations professionally
• Has strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel
• Takes pride in accuracy and delivering excellent service
• Takes a proactive and positive approach
• Has strong problem-solving skills
• Possesses the ability to build effective working relationships
• Has a willingness to challenge discrepancies and follow processes through to completion
• Has a high level of integrity and professionalism

💙 Our Values & Behaviours

We’re looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals. You can read more about our values and the behaviours on our website.

🏆Rewarding
I am grateful. I am courageous. I am curious.

✔️Reliable
I am honest. I am attentive. I am trustworthy.

🤝Respectful
I am inclusive. I am resilient. I am kind.

“It’s a great place work, with lots of opportunities and great people to work with. I have progressed from being the Receptionist to now assisting with all aspects of health and safety in branch.” – Caroline

💼 Application & Interview Support

If you need support with your job application, we encourage you to explore our new Career Hub - a free resource designed to help you reach your career goals. The Career Hub offers valuable guidance on crafting standout applications, excelling in interviews, and providing support for those re-entering the workforce. Additionally, you can watch, and practice example interviews to ensure you’re fully prepared to ace yours! You can access the site here.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. As long as you are experienced for the role and hold the necessary qualifications, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t feel like you meet all our requirements. We want to know about your passions, achievements, learning and growth. If this role excites you, start a conversation with us!

🥳 Benefits for you

• An extra day off for your Birthday
• 23 days of annual leave per year PLUS Bank Holidays
• Four times death in service benefit.
• Internal Mentorship programme
• Working for WhatVan?’s ‘Van Dealer of the Year 2026’.
• Working for Motor Trader’s ‘Employer of the Year’.
• Working for an official Great Place to Work™️ five years running!
• Working for a workplace which champions women.
• Awarded Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award (RLS)
• Working with our award-winning team – several of our team were recognised at the MT WIMT awards and we won silver at the internal communication and engagement awards for our new starter onboarding process.
• Auto-enrolment pension.
• Self-development journal
• Rygor Group Ranked 101 in SW Business Insider’s Top 500 Companies
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies and return to work post mat-leave policy.
• Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
• Mental Health First Aiders.
• Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards and opportunities to attend the Rygor Wembley box as a celebration of your hard work and dedication.
• Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
• Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training.
• Long service recognition and annual leave increase after 5 years’ service.
• Rygor Auto and Rygor Service Solutions are Maintenance Provision Rating Scheme (MPRS) accredited
• Branded uniform
• Charities of the Year programme, Army Sport sponsors and community engagement initiatives

🚛 About Coolfreeze
Coolfreeze is an industry renowned bodybuilding (coachbuilders) company, with our site based in Manchester. Our team are experts in their field and work to deliver exceptional customer service. So, whether our customers are needing a panel van or a 26-ton truck body, they can rely on our experience and knowledge to help them design the perfect vehicle. Our enduring success is built on a sound customer base who continue to use our services year after year, safe in the knowledge that we will meet their expectation. We have an incredible team of experts at Coolfreeze, with many achieving significant lengths of service with us, which is something we are really proud of. The longevity of our staff is a major contribution to our success and their input into our ISO 9001:2008 quality control system is an integral part of our high standards. Coolfreeze is a well-known and respected name in the industry and also has the resilience and high standing of owners, Rygor Group, behind it.

✅ Hiring Process

1. 🗎 We shortlist CVs online, so make sure to include information about yourself that makes you stand out
2. 📞 A short screening call with our hiring manager or a member of our people team
3. 🚶🏾 Come to site and meet the team, have a tour, and let’s have a chat so we can get to know each other better
4. 🫱🏿 🫲🏻 If your application is successful, we’ll be excited to make you an offer

DBS: Please be advised that successful applicants to Coolfreeze or any of our associated businesses, may be subject to satisfactory completion of a DBS check prior to joining the business.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
At Rygor, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. As an award-winning organisation, we are proud to be a community of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that individuality should be celebrated, and we strive to ensure that every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome and support people of all ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, sexual orientations, disability statuses, caring responsibilities, and neurodiverse profiles. We actively promote an inclusive environment where you can bring your authentic self to work every day, because we know that when you thrive, so does our business

Support
If you need to make reasonable adjustments to our process, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make the adjustments that may be needed.