Overview

The Business & Opportunity:
A new opportunity has been created to join this well-established business who provide major retailers with several household products. They are very much a market leader in their field, and much of their success is attributed to their employee care, which is reflected in their excellent staff retention.
On the back of a restructure, they are looking to recruit an Accounts Assistant (with a purchase ledger slant) to be based at their Bingley Head Office.
Accounts Assistant Requirement:
Reporting to the Financial Controller, you, as Accounts Assistant, will carry out a varied role which will involve both purchase ledger and varied accounts assistant duties. This will include:
* Purchase ledger tasks – invoice processing, payment allocation, matching, checking and coding invoices.
* Proactively analyse ledger and cash allocation along with supplier reconciliation statement.
* Making payments via BACS and cheques
* Processing import related bank documents, including checking, accepting and distributing, and liaising with shipping companies as appropriate
* Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details
* Processing staff expenses and credit card expenses
* Filing and general data entry
* Balance sheet reconciliations
* Investigating purchase price differences
* Managing petty cash
* Processing stock invoices and ensuring Goods Received Notes match
* Payroll cover
* Providing departmental duties cover including sales ledger
* Provide information as requested for auditors and assist with any queries
* Contributes to team effort by completing varied team tasks as needed
Accounts Assistant Ideal Skills & Experience:
* Experience of working in an Accounts environment, ideally including Purchase Ledger.
* Able to plan and organise own workloads and cope with changing deadlines, with excellent planning and organisational skills
* Confident using multiple computer systems including Microsoft office applications
* A persistent problem solver, able to develop practical solutions in a timely and thorough manner
* Strong administrator and record keeper with a high attention to detail and disciplined focus
* Exceptional interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills with all levels
* Would fit in well with family feel, SME culture.
What’s on offer:
* A competitive salary in the region of 22-23k (with some potential flexibility for the right candidate).
* Free onsite parking at their Bingley premises (also in walking distance from Crossflatts Train Station).
* 35 hour week, with an early Friday finish!
* The opportunity to work in a friendly and welcoming office environment.
Accounts Assistant Next Steps:
Interviews for Accounts Assistant are to be conducted imminently, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience. N.B. Lyons Recruitment have been retained on an exclusive basis, hence any direct or other agency applications with be disregarded