Accounts assistant

Sewell Wallis is working with an excellent business based in Harrogate who are looking to expand their existing accounts time. You will be working for a great, well-established company who offer excellent training and support as well as long-term progression. The successful person will have previous experience in a similar role and will ideally be AAT qualified and be confident looking after the full transactional accounts process as well working closely with the Management Accountant to assist with preparing the management accounts. Duties: Work closely and proactively with the Group Management Accountant to ensure effective cash flow management across group Businesses. Manage the group purchase ledger by consolidating purchase invoices weekly. Manage the group sales ledger by producing and distributing sales invoices as and when required. Credit control in following up late payments as required and proactively manage the collection of debtors across Group Businesses. Perform bank reconciliations promptly and clear any reconciling items in a timely manner. Support the Group Management Accountant with preparation and processing of payroll. The Person: Experience as an Accounts Assistant, or similar (essential). Excellent use of Excel for accounting to an advanced level (essential). AAT qualified (desirable). Benefits: Free parking. Study support following successful probation period. Competitive salary.To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions