Accounts Assistant

Posted 12 December 2023 by Reed Accountancy
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 Accounts Assistant

Salary - £25,000 - £28,000

Hours – 8:00am/8:30am – 5:00pm/5:30pm (4:30pm finish on Friday)

Our rapidly growing, prestigious and well established client is on the hunt for an Accounts Assistant to join their busy team. A busy team that has found the need for a new addition to their accounts team due to an increase in workload.

The successful candidate will be reporting directly to the Financial Director and will work fluently alongside 3 Accounts personnel and receptionist creating a close knit team.

The successful individual will take on the following duties and responsibilities:

• Checking purchase invoices to delivery notes / Materials returns /Plant returns

• Following up any queries with site

• Checking prices of purchase invoices to orders, and liaising with Procurement and Site re any queries

• Posting invoices to Opera purchase ledger

• Reconciling month end supplier statements

• Assisting with the preparation of month end payment run including following up any held items and ensuring that credit notes have been properly dealt with

• Liaising with suppliers regarding any queries

• Processing the weekly payroll (approximately 70 directly employed site operatives) on broadly a 2 week on, 2 week off basis

• Dealing with any starters and leavers

• Submitting weekly Full Payment Summary to HMRC

• Submitting weekly Auto-enrolment pension contributions to Peoples

• Preparation of weekly subcontractor payment certificates for labour only

• Checking subcontractor labour only hours to timesheets

• Resolving any queries with the relevant Quantity Surveyor and labour only

Personal attributes and specification:

• Ability to work within a team, making a positive contribution

• Intellectual capacity/curiosity to learn all the different roles within the

• Finance /Admin department

• Flexibility to be able to switch between the various aspects of the role

• Organised and able to deal with changes to normal routine to deal with unplanned issues such as sickness cover for other team members

• Attention to detail and desire to be accurate. Able and willing to undertake both routine work (such as Purchase Ledger) and work of a more specialised nature (such as Subcontractor Ledger)

• Able to use at a basic plus level Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel plus

• Microsoft Outlook and Teams

If you believe you fit the bill or simply interested to find out more contact me on or email me at for a full JD. Waste no more time and apply today!

Reference: 50195732

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