Accounts Assistant

Job Description

LHH Recruitment Solutions are delighted to be partnering with our client based in South Cambridgeshire, due to continued growth they are looking to recruit an Accounts Assistant to join the finance team on a full-time permanent basis.The role is offering a competitive salary up to £25,000 p/a dependant on skills and previous experience, this is an office-based role working half day on Fridays.Your roleThe Accounts Assistant is responsible for the Payable and Receivable functions working alongside two other colleagues covering various tasks including month end closure, improvement initiatives, cash posting and preparing adhoc reports.The candidate ideally should have good excel skill with the ability to prepare reports on a regular basis as well as having a can-do and problem-solving attitude.Your Day to DayRoutine Tasks:

• Purchase Ledger maintenance in all entities in an accurate and timely manner
• Process invoices within Kefron, matching any unprocessed PO-Invoices to receipts lines.
• Monitor the Open Invoice Pool and liaise with other colleagues in ensuring invoices are processed in a timely manner. This includes chasing requestors to receipt product lines in AX, liaising with Procurement on price variance etc.
• Resolve invoice discrepancies in a timely manner and liaise with suppliers to ensure accounts are kept up to date.
• Posting of bank transactions to different entities ledgers and completion of the bank reconciliations.
• Process individual & batch payments via multiple banking systems.
• Monitor the Payables inbox, ensuring it is cleared daily.
• Provide cover to the Credit Controller, this includes daily invoicing, cash receipts posting and debts chasing.

Month End Tasks:

• Closure of the Purchase Ledger
• Prepare all AP related Balance Sheet Reconciliations including banks, Purchase Ledger, VAT.
• Prepare suppliers statement reconciliations, identify any discrepancies, and take appropriate actions.
• Prepare adhoc reports that form part of the month end reporting pack as required.

Adhoc Tasks:

• Prepare Payment Forecast
• Prepare Open POs, Invoice Pool and GRNI Reports
• Ensure all changes to suppliers bank details have been verified before the first payment
• Support with updating the Finance Manual section of the Payable function
• Assist and cover expenses processing and reporting
• Prepare audit deliverables relating Payables
• Additional adhoc duties as required

Others:

• Maintain and achieve monthly related KPIs.
• Identify & initiate ways to increase process efficiency within the team.

Experience and Skills

• Previous experience in Accounts Payable role with good people skills are required to established and maintain excellent relationship with internal and external stakeholders
• Balance Sheet Reconciliation or Supplier Statements Reconciliation experience
• Competent in Excel. Able to do VLOOKUP, sum if formulas is desirable
• Good computer skills as this role requires a high degree of processing across a variety of platforms
• Studying towards AAT (desirable)
• Power BI experience
• Intermediate in Excel
• An understanding of VAT (desirable)
• Microsoft AX (ERP system)
• Kefron (Invoice Processing Software)
• SAP Concur (Expenses Software)

Keyskills :
MatchingReconciliationSAPMulti-currencyExcelProblem solvingV LookupPivot tablesPart qualifiedBalance sheet