Assistant Accountant
Robert Walters
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Burton upon Trent
Contract type: Full time
Assistant Accountant Salary: £27,500 Location: Burton-upon-Trent Keywords: Assistant Accountant, Finance, Excel Proficiency, Invoicing, Reconciliation
Our client is seeking an Assistant Accountant to play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely invoicing and revenue recognition. This position, based in Burton-upon-Trent, offers a competitive salary of £27,500. The ideal candidate will have a solid finance background and advanced Excel skills. Your work will contribute significantly to the financial accuracy and integrity of the company’s transactional processes including Accounts Payable, Credit Control and Billing.
As an Assistant Accountant, your primary responsibility will be to ensure accurate and timely invoicing and revenue recognition. You will prepare tailored sales invoices for customers using advanced Excel functions. You will also address customer queries, resolve billing discrepancies, and ensure timely payment. Your role will involve analysing the Payables ledger to identify trends and improvements. You will perform detailed reconciliations using Excel, supporting month-end revenue tasks. Working closely with the Credit Control team, you will help resolve outstanding issues. Additionally, you will assist in VAT returns, audits, and other month-end tasks.
The ideal Assistant Accountant candidate brings expertise in advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulae, and data analysis. You have experience in a finance or accounting role focusing on invoicing, reconciliation or similar processes. Your strong attention to detail allows you to identify discrepancies and perform precise financial analysis. With excellent verbal and written communication skills, you interact confidently with customers and internal teams. You are comfortable working under pressure in a dynamic environment and have a proactive approach to problem-solving. Experience with Sales Ledger or Purchase Ledger functions is required, as is familiarity with VAT processes, audits or revenue recognition tasks.
Our client is a leading company that values the financial accuracy and integrity of their transactional processes. They offer a supportive work environment where every team member plays a significant role in the company's success. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to grow their career in finance while contributing to a company's financial stability.
What's Next
Ready to take the next step in your finance career? Apply today!
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Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
Our client is seeking an Assistant Accountant to play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely invoicing and revenue recognition. This position, based in Burton-upon-Trent, offers a competitive salary of £27,500. The ideal candidate will have a solid finance background and advanced Excel skills. Your work will contribute significantly to the financial accuracy and integrity of the company’s transactional processes including Accounts Payable, Credit Control and Billing.
- Key role in ensuring accurate and timely invoicing and revenue recognition
- Opportunity to work with internal teams contributing to financial accuracy
- Competitive salary of £27,500
As an Assistant Accountant, your primary responsibility will be to ensure accurate and timely invoicing and revenue recognition. You will prepare tailored sales invoices for customers using advanced Excel functions. You will also address customer queries, resolve billing discrepancies, and ensure timely payment. Your role will involve analysing the Payables ledger to identify trends and improvements. You will perform detailed reconciliations using Excel, supporting month-end revenue tasks. Working closely with the Credit Control team, you will help resolve outstanding issues. Additionally, you will assist in VAT returns, audits, and other month-end tasks.
- Prepare accurate sales invoices for customers using advanced Excel functions and in-house systems.
- Address customer queries, resolve billing discrepancies, and ensure timely payment.
- Analyse the Payables ledger to identify trends and improvements.
- Perform detailed reconciliations using Excel, supporting month-end revenue tasks.
- Work closely with the Credit Control team to resolve outstanding issues.
- Assist in VAT returns, audits, and other month-end tasks.
- Maintain accurate customer account and rate information within internal systems.
- Undertake additional tasks as needed to support the Logistics Finance team.
The ideal Assistant Accountant candidate brings expertise in advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulae, and data analysis. You have experience in a finance or accounting role focusing on invoicing, reconciliation or similar processes. Your strong attention to detail allows you to identify discrepancies and perform precise financial analysis. With excellent verbal and written communication skills, you interact confidently with customers and internal teams. You are comfortable working under pressure in a dynamic environment and have a proactive approach to problem-solving. Experience with Sales Ledger or Purchase Ledger functions is required, as is familiarity with VAT processes, audits or revenue recognition tasks.
- Expertise in advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulae, and data analysis.
- Experience in a finance or accounting role focusing on invoicing, reconciliation or similar processes.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify discrepancies and perform precise financial analysis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact confidently with customers and internal teams.
- Comfortable working under pressure in a dynamic environment with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Experience with Sales Ledger or Purchase Ledger functions.
- Familiarity with VAT processes, audits or revenue recognition tasks.
Our client is a leading company that values the financial accuracy and integrity of their transactional processes. They offer a supportive work environment where every team member plays a significant role in the company's success. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to grow their career in finance while contributing to a company's financial stability.
What's Next
Ready to take the next step in your finance career? Apply today!
Apply today by clicking on the link!
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
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