Job Description

Accounts Assistant

£22k to £25k depending on experience

Segensworth

Brook Street South Coast are pleased to be working with a rapidly growing national renewable energy solutions company who based in Segensworth. They are focussed on providing an exceptional service and good quality products at fair prices. They combine this with first-class installation and excellent customer care from the initial enquiry through to post-sales support.

This company are going through a really exciting period of business growth and have a great reputation in their industry. You will be joining a small but friendly team in a role which offers opportunities to gain experience in a very secure sector.

About the role

We are looking for someone organised and great with numbers to join the business as an Accounts Assistant with a responsibility to support with all accounts administration and some credit control. The business use Xero for all accounting and are ideally looking for someone with experience but are happy to train on the software.

Office hours are 9am to 6pm with an hour lunch break.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Purchase Ledger - processing Supplier invoices, statement reconciliation & queries
• Preparing & checking payment runs
• Assisting the Accounts team with other accounting tasks as required
• Process accounts and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies
• Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables' data
• Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted
• Monitor and control overdue customer amounts
• Apply relevant Credit Control procedures to overdue balances
• General administrative work including occasional distribution of post

Who's right for the job?

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, clear, confident and professional telephone manner. This will suit someone who can cope in a fast-paced environment, loves organisation, coordinating and planning alongside internal teams and customers.

Whilst experience with Xero, as well as general knowledge of accounting procedures and any progress towards AAT qualification would be great to see, what we are primarily looking for in suitable candidates is:

• Experience in an accounts admin environment
• Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) to include Maths
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Highly organised with excellent time management skills.
• Able to communicate well at all levels.
• Computer literate

What's in it for you?

If you're successful you will join an emerging renewables company with a great reputation and an excellent working environment. This family-run company have friendly staff, opportunities to progress as the business grows.

In return for your hard work our client offers a competitive salary of between £22,000 - £25,000 year, depending on experience.

Let's get started!

This role is available for a start as soon as possible and interviews will be arranged as soon as possible. Generally, this will involve an initial face to face interview followed by an opportunity to meet the team.

For more information or a detailed job specification, please contact Ben at Brook Street South Coast or apply now to send your CV