Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant focuses on prepare payments for authorisation by office manager. creditors weekly report to the managing director.

What the role involves

• Prepare payments for authorisation by Office Manager. Creditors weekly report to the Managing Director.
• Reconcile monthly statements, address suppliers/sub-contractors queries.
• Managing sales ledger raising customer invoices for authorisation by the Transport Office and sending out monthly statements to customers.
• Maintaining the filing system for sales/purchase invoices.
• Answer the telephone and deal with enquirers taking messages as appropriate.

Skills and requirements

• Relevant finance, accounts, payroll, Excel, bookkeeping, or accounting-system experience may be required.

Candidate fit

• accuracy, finance-system confidence, deadline awareness, and careful handling of numbers

Additional role context

• Must be self-motivated and pro-active.
• As this position will initially be based in Rochford, there will be opportunities to commute and our offices will move to Chelmsford within the next 6 months.
• Candidate would need to relocate for the move.