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The Accounts Assistant is responsible for maintaining the day-to-day transactions in the Finance department. This role requires strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy. This is crucial to allow financial reporting deadlines to be met and for senior management to be able to make decisions based upon timely and reliable Information.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the Sales ledger transactional postings, including raising invoices, credit notes.
  • Responsible for the Purchase ledger transactional postings, including invoice processing.
  • Full responsibility for posting and reconciling the bank accounts and credit cards.
  • Support the Finance Team with process improvement projects and initiatives. For example, automating the sales invoice processing and introduction of a PO system.
  • Assist Finance Team with statutory reporting requirements including VAT returns and Year end accounts.
  • Support as necessary chasing customer payments.
  • Assist Finance Team with ad-hoc tasks.
  • All daily transactional work to be completed by midday on the first WD of the month to enable Management accounts to be produced by 4 WD of the month.
  • Ensure all customer and supplier queries are dealt with in a timely manner to avoid any disputes or disruption to services.
  • All finance systems to be always kept fully up to date and accurate.
  • Work to be completed in an efficient manner.

Required skills

  • Enthusiastic learner wanting to study for a professional qualification
  • Hard working and well organised
  • High attention to detail
  • Enjoys being part of a team structure
  • Thrives on deadlines
  • Friendly and personable

Benefits

  • You will be entitled to 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays increasing with length of service.
  • Birthday off work
  • 2 Volunteer days a year.
  • The option to purchase additional days holiday.
  • We operate a contributory pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment.
  • Free Gym Membership with Pure Gym or Wellbeing Allowance
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
  • Share option scheme after probation
  • Cycle to work scheme after probation
  • Health cash plan
  • Free breakfast & lunch food when in the Manchester office
  • Discounted Parking in Manchester
  • Access to training – both internal and external
  • Check out our Company page on the Great Place to Work website:
    Working at AccessPay | Great Place To Work® UK

About AccessPay

AccessPay is a fintech company committed to making banking operations smart, simple and secure through automated payments and cash management. We empower finance and treasury teams with access to technology that gives corporates the same experience that we as consumers have come to expect in our day-to-day lives.

Head quartered in Manchester we have a diverse, supportive and inclusive workplace culture. We provide people with the balance of remote of office working they need to thrive. Whilst AccessPay continues to grow, we remain a start up at heart but continue to grow agile teams, working cross functionally, learning from each other and not being afraid to take on ambitious challenges.

AccessPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at AccessPay. We actively celebrate colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. AccessPay is proud to be named aUK's Best Workplaces™ in 2024 & UK's Best Workplaces in Tech™ 2023 by Great Place To Work® company.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed over 100 million employees around the world, using those deep insights to define what element makes a great workplace: Trust.

Great Place to Work® UK helps organisations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organisation become a truly ‘great place to work’.