Finance Assistant

Maternity Leave Cover

9.00am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday

Location: Hyde

Salary: £25,000 - £29,000

The Company

We are recruiting for a Finance Assistant to cover Maternity Leave to join our client leading manufacturing company who are based in the Hyde area. 

Finance Assistant

The successful candidate:

• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge.
• Accurate, organised, and able to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of sales and expenditure analysis.
• Strong teamwork ethic.
• Experience of working in a finance department.
• Experience of working with allocating concepts i.e., accruals and prepayments
• Training to become or be AAT qualified.
• Ideally will have experience in manufacturing environment

Finance Assistant

Role and Responsibilities:

• Collating documentation to support journal transactions for expenditure and sales in profit and loss accounts.
• Creating a monthly profit and loss expenditure analysis pack for review by senior management.
• Prepare and post monthly recurring journals for specified Balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
• Preparing monthly sales breakdown report.
• Calculating and preparing monthly sales commissions.
• Prepare and post inter-company journals, ensuring all figures are agreed by agreed deadlines.
• Maintaining cashbooks and credit card receipts – including downloading bank statements, recording bank statement transactions, posting all currency sales ledger and nominal items on a daily basis.
• Ensure all purchase ledger items are complete to enable daily posting.
• Reconcile all bank accounts on a daily basis.
• Review and reconcile Petty Cash book and cash on a weekly basis.
• Liaise with department heads to obtain approval for supplier payments.
• Ensuring there are adequate levels of currency to cover supplier payments.
• Completing reports for inclusion in the Board report.
• Issuing foreign currency to staff, ensuring sufficient levels of currency.
• Recognise, prepare and produce prepayments and accruals and reconciling weekly.
• Coding and posting journals.
• Producing payment sheets for Assistant Company Accountant, including employee expenses.
• Providing cover for Finance Assistants.
• Ad hoc duties as required.
• Ensure suppliers are notified of goods to be returned and arrange the timely collection with all internal customers notified.
• Regularly check levels on stocked Indirect Supplies (Packaging, Office Supplies, Printer Cartridges, Toners etc.) to maintain correct levels.
• Assist with any day-to-day queries.
• Organise Travel arrangements for employees.
• Order and distribute all employee clothing and shoes.
  
  Arrange employee payments for clothing with department managers, credit control and finance.
• Maintain continuity of leasing of company vehicles.
• Create monthly report for Purchasing Manager detailing all activities and savings
• Your work place and working area must be kept clean and tidy.
  
  You must adhere to the company’s Health and Safety standards as defined in the Health and Safety policy.
• Perform within the requirements of your position and maintain the Company’s Quality Procedure.
• Carry out any other duties when required.
  
  This may involve working in other departments.

Finance Assistant

Benefits:

• Auto enrolled into our Stakeholder Pension Scheme (Employer contributes 4%).
• 28 days holiday (including statutory), rising by one day over five years, with each completed year of service.
• Life Assurance covering your annual salary.
• Subsidised canteen offering freshly cooked meals and sandwiches every day.
• Free car parking.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling support, legal guidance, and medical advice from qualified nurses, for you and your immediate family.
• Discounted Gym Membership.
• Discounted Blinds and Shutters, upon successful completion of your Probationary Period.
• Free Flu Jab voucher every Autumn.
• Christmas Savings Scheme.

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Keywords:

Finance assistant, Accounts assistant, Finance office assistant.

Please contact Amy Laplace-McHugh at Winsearch UK for further details – amy.mchugh@winsearch.uk

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