Accounts Assistant

• Daily reconciliation of company bank accounts including processing direct debit and standing order payments
• Month end reconciliation for all company bank accounts ensuring any aged items are investigated to ascertain why they are still outstanding
• Registering customer direct debit mandates with the appropriate banks and arranging monthly collections of monies due
• Coding Manual Invoices for authorisation by the Management Accountant, registering the Invoices on MCS-financials and distribution of the Invoices for authorisation
• Reconciliation of company credit card transactions ensuring that appropriate receipts are received and accounted for correctly
• Ensuring Accounts Payable processing deadlines are met in order to meet Management Accounts deadlines
• Producing payment runs for suppliers and other ad-hoc payments
• General housekeeping of supplier accounts including reconciliation of supplier statements
• Reviewing aged supplier invoice queries and communicate with Supplier to arrange for them to be resolved or cleared from our system
• Daily closeouts of Invoices
• Credit Notes and Purchase Order distributions from MCS-rm to MCS-financials
• Assistance within Credit Control including contacting customers for collection of debt either verbally or in writing
• Providing cover for Accounts Administrators and Payroll Co-ordinator when absent or on holiday
• Analysing general ledger accounts at the request of the Management Accountant or Assistant Accountant

Reporting to the Financial Accountant this role is based at our head office in Newcastle

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• Attractive Bonus Scheme
• 25 Days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays (Increasing with length of service)
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program
• High Street Discount Vouchers
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Health & Wellbeing Discount Vouchers
• Cycle to Work & Home & Tech Scheme Benefits
• Milestone Birthdays Additional leave
• Work Anniversary Bonus’s
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• 25 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Workplace Pension
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Reward and Recognition Programme
• Milestone Birthday – Extra Day Off
• MyActiveDiscounts - Discounted Gym, Fitness and Travel
• Charity Match Funding