Finance Assistant

Accounts Assistant
Thurmaston, Leicester
Salary £25,000 - £27,000
SF Recruitment are recruiting for an Accounts Assistant to work for our Thurmaston based client on a 9 month contract basis with a possibility of extension.
Job purpose -
Primary Duties and responsibilities
Purchase Ledger
- To be responsible for the maintenance of Purchase ledger procedures within the UK
- Deal with purchase ledger telephone and email enquires
- Make payment of supplier accounts via Bacs, cheque and electronic bank transfers
- To close the purchase ledger month end including running of the month end reports by the published finance deadline
- Complete monthly Supplier Statement Reconciliation's
Nominal Ledger
- Weekly payment of Nominal Ledger Invoices
- Preparation of a monthly list of Accruals, prepayments, and Purchase Ledger accruals.
- To maintain the Nominal Ledger Invoices and payments on a weekly basis
- To complete the monthly exchange rate journal
- Reconcile monthly control accounts
- To complete the daily bank reconciliation
- Review overhead reports and send to relevant managers.
- Prepare and submit Monthly VAT returns
- Post other month end journals as and when required
General Finance and Sales Ledger Duties
- Weekly posting of the general cash book into the Finance IT system
- Prepare the monthly overhead reports
- Send out the daily sales ledger invoices
- Prepare, post, and allocate the sales ledger cash sheets