Accounts Assistant

Bournemouth – 3 months contract - £26,000 Pro rata - Part-Time Hours 3 days per week

Vardey Recruitment are delighted to be working in an exclusive partnership with a highly successful professional services business in Central Bournemouth, Dorset. We are recruiting for an Accounts Assistant/Sales Ledger/Purchase Ledger clerk on a 3 month fixed term contract basis. The Accounts job reports directly to the Financial Controller and is a busy and varied role for someone with experience in sales ledger, purchase ledger and ideally credit control. The Job is for 3 months on a fixed term contract basis with the view to go permanent.

Job duties

• Setting up of new customers
• Raising of sales invoicing
• Processing of customer payments and allocation
• Building customer relationships with Accounts departments
• Credit Control duties via phone and email
• Reconciliations of customer statements
• Month end sales ledger tasks
• Assisting with the purchase ledger
• Dealing with customer queries
• Credit checking new customers
• Supporting with the month end close
• Bank reconciliations
• Maintaining debtor reports
• Ad hoc accountancy duties – assisting the FC with accountancy duties to help with month end

Requirements:

• Ideally experience in a sales ledger, purchase ledger and credit controller job
• Ability to pick up systems quickly
• Strong MS office Excel, Word, strong IT skills
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• Ability to multi-task
• Highly organised
• Problem solving skills
• Ability to pay attention to detail

In Return:

• £22,000- £26,000 pro rata if part-time (depending on experience/qualifications)
• Pension
• Hybrid working, Flexible hours - ideally 3 days per week
• 20 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus

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