Accounts Assistant Apprentice AAT

Accounts

• Assisting the Finance Manager in maintaining the business's accounting records: Including updating the supplier's ledger with invoices, maintaining and reconciling the business's bank account, petty cash records, and adding and reconciling the business credit card transactions
• Dealing with accounts queries

Purchase Ledger

• Place purchase order with supply chain
• Raise purchase orders to accounting system
• Monthly Purchase Ledger Reconciliations
• Issuing of remittance advice to Wholesalers
• Maintaining Clean Ledgers & Filling System
• Maintain Direct Debit Schedule. Bank & Cash
• Complete Daily Bank Reconciliations
• Post payments in SAGE Line 50 Sales Ledger
• Issue customer invoices from valuations received from Commercial Managers
• Credit Control duties, ensuring all Sales invoices are paid within the agreed payment terms

Other Duties

• Process monthly employee expenses to Eque2/Sage
• Assist with Quarterly VAT Returns
• Provide cover for department during employee leave periods
• Post Journals including Prepayments & Accruals & Assist with Management Accounts
• Completion of Ad-hoc duties upon instruction from the Finance Manager

Requirements and prospects

Desired skills

• Experience with Sage, Eque2 & COINs is a bonus
• Proficient level MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint

Personal qualities

• Effective communicator
• Able to build and maintain relationships
• Able to work in a pressurised environment
• Ability to adapt to change
• Highly organised individual with an all-round ability, who is willing and able to take ownership of all tasks given
• Positive, motivated and enthusiastic with a readiness to help out in any capacity as and when needed
• Multi-tasker with excellent attention to detail
• A team player with excellent interpersonal skills, professional, diplomatic and able to build relationships easily
• Proactive
• Able to work to tight deadlines and has excellent time management skills
• Confident in chasing information to deadlines

Desired qualifications

• AAT Level 3 Qualified

Future prospects

Development will be provided after the apprenticeship, should the positions be vacant.