Sales Ledger / Bookkeeper / Ledger Clerk

Your new company
A well-known and highly respectable organisation based in Dereham, are looking to offer an 18-month contract to an experienced Sales Ledger / Bookkeeper / Accounts Assistant who is looking for a flexible working.

Your new role
The key duties in this Accounts Assistant job will be raising sales invoices and ensuring any reminder letters/emails have been sent at specific times as the invoices become due with follow-up telephone calls. You will also post cash receipts to the correct account, produce a debtors report and make the departments aware of any overdue accounts. Daily reconciliation of the ledgers, banking and checking for daily direct debits and any BACS payments need to be completed.

You will also part of the team who process all purchase invoices by first, checking for a PO number, raising the purchase invoices on to the finance system called Integra, reconciling the invoice to the GRN (goods receipt) and then prepare the payment. You will also deal with supplier queries, action any urgent payments and generally deal with the end-to-end processing of the purchase ledger as they have payment runs of circa £500,000 - £1million. The finance team also deals with cash-management, so you will assist with bank reconciliation, checking cash-balances, allocating any petty cash entries and general income management.

What you'll need to succeed
You will have experience of bookkeeping and have strong transactional skills in sales ledger and purchase ledger, as well as be confident with statement / account reconciliation. Therefore, you must have at least 1-2 years experience in finance and be confident wit Excel to analyse and reconcile financial data. Ideally, you will be an AAT student, but this is not essential, but proven experience in bookkeeping/transactional finance is key.

What you'll get in return
As explained, this is an 18-month fixed-term and after a qualifying period, hybrid-working of 2 days in their Dereham office and 3 days working at home will be offered.

The organisation offers a salary of between £24,000 - £31,000 depending on your experience, 25 days' holiday plus the Bank Holidays, a generous pension of 14% from the employer, free car parking and recently refurbished office.

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