Accounts Assistant - Taylor Hawkes Ltd : Job Details

Our client is a well established construction consultancy company based in Hemel Hempstead. They are currently looking for a junior accountant to join their team as an Accounts Assistant on a permanent, full time basis.

Your duties as an Accounts Assistant will include:

• Raising approximately 100 month end sales invoices on company’s management system
• Uploading sales invoices into the company’s accounts software
• Sending out statements and answering customers’ queries
• Credit control
• Maintaining customers details on both the company’s management system and accounting software
• Correctly coding and obtaining manager approval for approximately 250 supplier invoices per month
• Making/checking credit card payments and processing onto the company’s accounts software
• Assembling payment runs and processing through BACs
• Checking and processing employees’ expenses
• Processing all bank transactions and reconciliation
• General Administration supporting the effective running of the office

Requirements for the Accounts Assistant role include:

• A general understanding of accounting principles and associate regulatory matters would be an advantage but not essential as this knowledge will be acquired during training
• Applicant must be used to working in a multifunctional role
• Experience in a similar role
• Experience of Opera would be an advantage
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Excel
• Good commercial awareness
• Ability to prioritise their own workload and meet deadlines

Free parking is available on site and other benefits include 25 days annual leave, buy/sell holiday scheme, flexi-time working, study leave, yearly flu vaccine, season ticket loans and more.