Accounts Assistant

Description:

Accounts Assistant

Competitive Salary

Monday - Friday / Days

Wrexham

Our client based in the Wrexham area is currently recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team on a permanent basis. As the Accounts Assistant you will provide flexible cover for the accounting functions: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Intercompany, Banking, VAT and Payroll.

Performance Objectives

Accounts Payable:

* Take ownership of the Accounts Payable function ensuring invoices and payments are processed correctly and on time.

* Post all resin invoices within the month to which they relate ensuring the GRNI account is cleared on a monthly basis.

* Process staff expenses and ensure they are paid within agreed timescales.

* Perform high volume data entries and processing, on a daily basis, ensuring invoices are properly authorised, coded and posted onto the system in a timely fashion.

* Carry out statement reconciliations – following up to ensure any missing invoices are requested and received and any queries resolved.

* Pro-actively manage the Aged Payables – ensuring appropriate action is taken to clear overdue item.

* Ensure direct debit invoices are posted on a monthly basis to clear relevant accounts.

* Pro-actively manage the GRNI, making sure invoices are received to clear grn’s in a timely fashion.

Accounts Receivable:

* Raise manual invoices and credit notes on a weekly basis ensuring they have been approved appropriately in the ACR database.

* Assist the Account Managers in setting up new customers by carrying out D&B credit reports.

* Monthly price adjustment corrections.

* Liaise with the Account Managers to ensure any monthly/quarterly/annual price changes are received and uploaded into SAP before the end of the prior month to which they take effect.

* Set up ad-hoc prices throughout the month as required and requested by Customer Services.

Intercompany:

* Take ownership of the inter-company function ensuring invoices are posted/raised, inter-company balances agreed, the inter-company matrix is reconciled to meet month end deadlines and balances due to/from companies within the Group are paid/received as due.

Banking:

* Monitor the bank on a daily basis for any incoming and outgoing payments, ensuring they are posted in SAP.

* Raise manual payments in Citibank as well as any standing orders.

* Monitor FX deals ensuring payments are raised to settle as due.

VAT:

* Compile and submit the quarterly VAT returns.

Payroll:

* Liaise with Production Admin to ensure all approved overtime sheets are received working day one, reconciled to Lotus Notes and submitted for inclusion in the payroll.

* Liaise with the HR Officer to ensure any required changes to the payroll are implemented, e.g., new starters, leavers, salary increases etc.

* Ensure the payroll provider’s deadlines are met.

* Upload payroll file into Citibank to ensure payment on due date.

Person Specification

* Good IT skills, Microsoft Office - particularly Excel.

* Experience of working in an accounting environment, with some payroll experience an advantage.

* ERP system experience (SAP or similar).

* Attention to detail.

* Working to tight deadlines.

* Ability to work as part of a team.

* Ability to form good relationships with both internal and external customers.

* GSCE Maths and English Grade C or above (Mandatory).

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