Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

📍 Location: Sittingbourne
💰 Salary: £27,000 per annum
🕒 Job Type: Full-Time, Temporary

About the Role

We are currently seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to join our client growing team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong data entry skills and accounts experience to contribute to a busy finance department.

The successful candidate will support all aspects of the accounts function, ensuring financial records are accurate, up to date, and processed in line with company procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Processing purchase invoices and checking validity against purchase orders
Matching, batching, and coding invoices
Raising sales invoices and applications
Entering purchasing invoices onto the Eque2 system (training provided if required)
Entering payments from cash books into Sage Line 50
CIS verification of subcontractors
Bank reconciliations
Processing credit card expenses and ensuring all receipts are provided
Requesting and processing credit notes where required
Preparing and issuing customer and supplier statements
Reconciling supplier statements
Producing month-end and management financial reports from Eque2
Job costing (labour, expenses, petty cash)
Liaising with accountants and external auditors
Responding to time-critical emails from clients and colleaguesAbout You

We are looking for someone who has:

Excellent data entry skills and strong attention to detail
Good numeracy skills
Previous experience in sales and purchase invoicing
Experience in accounts payable or purchase ledger
Experience using Sage (Sage Line 50 preferred)
Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
Strong organisational and communication skills
Ability to work independently and meet deadlinesThe hours of work are 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday and this is initially a Temporary role with the opportunity to become Permanent

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