Senior Accounts Assistant | Salisbury | £38k (c) | FT 39 hours per week
Ready to move beyond the day-to-day processing and take the next step in your finance career?
We’re recruiting a Senior Accounts Assistant for an established Salisbury business, joining a small and friendly finance team where you’ll have plenty of responsibility and the opportunity to broaden your accounting experience.
Sitting between the Accounts Assistant and Management Accountant, this is a great role for someone who already has strong transactional finance experience but now wants more ownership and greater exposure to month end and wider accounting activities.
The opportunity:
You’ll work closely with the Management Accountant, taking responsibility for key areas of the accounts function while helping ensure everything runs accurately and on time.
Your role is likely to include:
Taking ownership of sales and purchase ledger activities
Preparing and checking supplier payment runs
Credit control and monitoring aged debt
Bank and balance sheet reconciliations
Investigating and resolving account discrepancies
Posting journals, accruals and prepayments
Supporting VAT and other financial returns
Preparing information and schedules for month end
Assisting with elements of management accounts preparation
Supporting the Management Accountant with reporting and analysis
Helping maintain strong financial controls and accurate records
Supporting the Accounts Assistant and sharing your knowledge when needed
Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes
About you:
We’re looking for someone who has built good all-round accounts experience and is now comfortable doing more than straightforward processing.
You might already be a Senior Accounts Assistant, Assistant Accountant or Finance Officer. Alternatively, you could be an experienced Accounts Assistant who has reached the point where you're ready for more responsibility.
You'll be confident with ledgers and reconciliations, understand how your work feeds into month end and, importantly, be someone who can spot when something doesn't look right and investigate it.
An AAT qualification or progress towards ACCA/CIMA would be welcomed, but we're equally interested in experienced candidates who have developed their accounting knowledge through practical, hands-on experience.
Experience with Sage or similar accounting systems would be useful, alongside good Excel skills.
What makes this such an appealing role?
For the right person, the appeal is the step up.
You'll remain hands-on, but you'll also get closer to the month-end process and work alongside an experienced Management Accountant, giving you the opportunity to continue developing your technical accounting knowledge.
It's an opportunity to become an important member of a smaller finance team within an established local business, where you'll be trusted with responsibility rather than simply given a list of transactions to process.
Salary: Up to £38,000 depending on experience
Hours: Full time, 39 hours per week
Location: Salisbury
If you're looking at your current Accounts Assistant role thinking “I'm ready for more”, we'd be very interested in talking to you.
Contact: Louise Howard | 01722 741840 | louise@requireconsultancy.com