Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant (12 month FTC)

Location – East Manchester

Salary – up to £30,000

About the company:

A well-established manufacturing business based in Manchester. You’ll be working in a broad role, supporting the Company Accountant, in a 12 month fixed term contract.

Responsibilities include:

• Collating documentation to support journal transactions for expenditure and sales in profit and loss accounts.
• Creating a monthly profit and loss expenditure analysis pack for review by senior management.
• Prepare and post monthly recurring journals for specified Balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
• Preparing monthly sales breakdown report.
• Calculating and preparing monthly sales commissions.
• Prepare and post inter-company journals, ensuring all figures are agreed by agreed deadlines.
• Maintaining cashbooks and credit card receipts – including downloading bank statements, recording bank statement transactions, posting all currency sales ledger and nominal items on a daily basis.
• Ensure all purchase ledger items are complete to enable daily posting.
• Reconcile all bank accounts on a daily basis.
• Review and reconcile Petty Cash book and cash on a weekly basis.
• Recognise, prepare and produce prepayments and accruals and reconciling weekly.
• Coding and posting journals.
• Producing payment sheets for Assistant Company Accountant, including employee expenses.
• Ad hoc duties as required.

Skills/Qualifications required:

• Previous similar accounts experience
• Strong teamwork ethic
• Accurate, organised, and able to meet deadlines
• Strong Excel skills
• Manufacturing industry experience a bonus, but not required

We typically advertise our roles on LinkedIn for no more than 24-72 hours, but that doesn’t always mean the vacancy is filled.

For more information around this role or others, or to send over your CV, please contact zach.crawford@yourrecruitmentpartner.com