Accounts Assistant (Sales Ledger)
- Location: Preston
- Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum
- Reference: JLM/40067/BAR
- Contact: Jack Moss
Accounts Assistant (Sales Ledger) | £25,000 – £28,000 | Preston | Great working culture | Excellent benefits
Axon Moore are pleased to be working alongside a highly-valued client as they look to recruit an ambitious and personable Sales Ledger Clerk to their dynamic team. This role is well suited to an enthusiastic and hard-working individual with good accounts receivable / credit control experience and an ability to build rapport across departments whilst working in an efficient and timely manner.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Daily banking, including allocating payment, reconciling accounts and posting bank journals
- Support with credit control for credit sales accounts
- Oversee and monitor cash invoice ledgers to ensure timely payment allocations and correction of any invoicing errors
- Daily payments and intercompany account transfers
- Ownership for petty cash
- Processing employee expense claims
- Bank reconciliations
- Assist with month-end control account reconciliations
- Processing refunds
- Resolving queries on customer accounts
- Holiday and sickness cover for Purchase Ledger
- Other ad-hoc duties
Required Skills and Experience:
- At least 1-2 years’ experience within a similar role
- Experience of complex reconciliations
- Able to develop and maintain good internal and external working relationships
- Able to efficiently manage a high-volume workload
- Good IT and MS Excel skills
- Proactive, self-motivated and organised
- Able to work efficiently both independently and collaboratively
Benefits:
- 9am – 6pm w/ 1 hour lunch
- 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Discounts
- Company pension scheme
- Death in Service policy
- Childcare voucher scheme
- Incentives and rewards
- Free tickets to local and national events
- Staff social events
- Free on-site parking
Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Jack Moss at jmoss@axonmoore.com or see our website at www.axonmoore.com