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Trainee Accounts Assistant
£19-21K Starting Salary + Benefits
Based: Leigh / Lowton

Permanent Employment Contract

Are you a recent college or university leaver looking to start a career in accounts in industry?

Or perhaps you have gained your AAT but not had the chance to put your knowledge into practice in a work environment?

Maybe you've worked in an office environment where you have developed lots of transferable skills, but have a burning desire to re-train into accounts.

If so, this could be the job for you!

Our Client has a well established business with a multi-million turnover. They are looking to recruit a Trainee Accounts Assistant to join their established team. FULL TRAINING WILL BE GIVEN.

In this role you will help to manage a large sales ledger by undertaking credit control and administration duties. You will provide support to both internal and external customers over the telephone and by email.

You will also act as the internal receptionist for the department in dealing with general queries and visitors, as well as being tasked with general admin duties for the department such as scanning, filing and data entry.

You'll be using computer programmes such as Word, Outlook, Excel and SAGE on a daily basis (training provided). Longer term you will also be trained to undertake a range of duties in other areas in the department to cover for sickness / holidays, to perform credit risk analysis and will be able to get involved in project work for the department.

Hours of work are 8am until 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8am until 4pm Fridays. Please note the role is office based and there is no flexibility on the start and finish times.

We are looking for someone first and foremost with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You should also be confident to learn new things, be able to pay close attention to detail and have the capability to meet deadlines. Good basic computer literacy is also important for this role.

Interested? Please email your CV using the link below, or contact Nicola at Support2Recruit for more information on 01942 819111.

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ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT, £20-23K + BENS
BASED: LEIGH

Our Client is the UK’s leading independent distributor of speciality products to the construction industry. With sales via trade counter, through buying groups and in recent years developing into ecommerce, the business is going from strength to strength.

Due to their expansion, they now wish to add an additional Accounts Assistant to their small, friendly team based at head office in Leigh.

In this role you will take responsibility for supporting the finance department by managing and administering day to day accounting activity.

The majority of your time initially will be to provide assistance to the Sales Ledger Accounts Manager with credit control and administration for over 700 live customers.

You will also provide support for other day to day accounting activities e.g. remittance reconciliation for buying groups, assisting with processing cash sales and purchases.

You will also be responsible for telephone and email support to customers and branch colleagues, and acting as first point of contact to the department, as well as performing various administration duties such as document scanning, data entry, filing etc.

Suitable candidates should have a qualification in book-keeping / accounts plus customer service skills, or have relevant work experience within an accounts environment in a small to medium sized business.

You should also have good basic experience in MS Office applications, especially Excel and ideally experience working with accounting software, preferably SAGE (training provided).

We are also seeking someone with excellent customer facing and telephone skills who is highly organised, focused on attention to detail, and a mindset of getting it right first time

Hours of work are 8am until 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8am until 4pm on Friday, with 1 hour lunch break per day.

Starting salary will be £20-23K + Benefits and there is the scope to increase earning potential in time through personal development / annual pay increases.

This is a great opportunity to join an established team, with lots of prospects for personal development in a department that is recruiting for planned future growth.

You’ll also be working in a modern, large and airy open plan office in an environment where employees are supported and valued, and alongside a great bunch of people!