Trainee Accounts Assistant
Bidford-On-Avon • Permanent • Full-Time Hours • Salary £18,550
An exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for a career within Accountancy and Finance. This role is very exciting and will offer the individual a study support pacakage.
Day to day duties of our Trainee Accounts Assistant:
- Responsible for processing bank transactions onto JD Edwards daily, including: -
- Printing daily bank reports.
- Matching JD Edwards receipt/payment transactions to daily bank reports.
- Posting ‘in-transit bank transactions to JD Edwards at month-end.
- Producing month-end bank reconciliation reports for further review/authorisation by the manager.
- Liaising with suppliers.
- Assisting A/R function with processing of daily customer receipts onto JD Edwards, including:
- Allocating receipts onto customer accounts.
- Filing customer remittances.
- Liaising with Credit Controllers to resolve receipt queries (e.g. missing remittances from customers, incorrect payment amounts received from customers, etc.).
- Assisting A/P function with processing of daily supplier invoices onto JD Edwards, including: -
- Processing supplier invoices onto JD Edwards
- Liaising with other functions to resolve price/quantity invoice queries.
- Filing supplier invoices
- Supporting monthly supplier payment activities
General office duties (photocopying, scanning, general filing, etc.)
With the right training and support, the role will expand with further duties over time
- Supporting accountants with ad-hoc tasks/projects.
- Involvement with monthly foreign currency cash flow forecasts.
- ‘Exposure’ to other aspects of accounting work (in addition to expected A/R, A/P and daily bank transaction tasks), for example potentially: -
- VAT
- Monthly accounts procedures
- Inter-company procedures
The Successful Trainee Accounts Assistant must have the following skills/experience:
- Some ‘Finance Dept.’ experience would is desired, but not essential as full training can be given.
- The desire to study finance-related courses would be encouraged.
- A ‘common sense approach to problem-solving.
- A ‘can do attitude to learning new tasks.
What’s on offer for the successful Trainee Accounts Assistant?
- Study Support
- Monday-Friday 08.30-17.00 and finish early on a Friday
- Free Parking
- 23 days holiday plus BH