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Candidate Requirements:

• Previous experience in an accounts / finance function with responsibility for banks and ledgers processing.
• Exceptional telephone and interpersonal communication skills.
• Wide ranging experience operating and using various accounting packages and systems.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of how finance impacts other business stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• A multi-tasker with good time management skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, specifically Excel.
• Methodical and accurate approach with numbers.

Job Description:

Our client is a UK leader within the automotive sector who are seeking a Funding Accounts Assistant to join their finance team. The company has recently moved to fantastic new offices in Stoke on Trent. They offer 25 days holiday, 5% employer pension contribution, gym subsidy, health care cover, life cover and an annual bonus.

The purpose of the role will be to provide support to the Funding & Credit Manager / Financial Controller in order to maintain and manage the Company funding sales and purchase ledgers, encompassing payments and receipts for UK entities. You will ensure funding ledgers are always reconciled, maintained and free from error and take action where issues are identified.

Duties will include:

• Posting and reconciliation of funder documentation to ensure accuracy of ledgers.
• Take ownership for the funder payments and receipts ensuring all paperwork, invoices and remittances are received and specific funder accounts on both the purchase and sales ledgers are reconciled on a daily basis.
• Post bank transactions to both sales, purchase and general ledger.
• Where corrections are required, work with the IT and the funders to ensure they are processed in system and ensure amendments are reflected in the following month’s financials.
• Respond to internal and external queries.
• To assist with funder audits.
• Championing of funding and credit processes across all entities and ensure their continuity.

Candidate Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will have previous experience in payroll (ideally from a manufacturing background)
• Sound understanding of Payroll and Pension legislation is essential
• Keen eye for detail and accuracy
• The ability to use pivot tables and look-ups within Excel would be advantageous
• Excellent communication skills, strong IT skills and a good level of organisation skills
• The ability to work well in a team as well as on your own

Job Description:

Our client is looking for a Payroll Officer to join their well-established company in Stoke on Trent. You’ll be joining a manufacturing company who are leaders in their field. Offering a fantastic working environment and competitive package, this is a great opportunity for someone with solid payroll experience to join a prestigious organisation.

The Payroll Officer will assist in providing accurate payroll for weekly and monthly employees. Duties will include:

• Processing weekly and monthly payroll using HR and Payroll software
• Produce payslips P60, and P11d’s and distribute to employees
• Check and process data captured from time management system to weekly paid employeed
• Collate and process agency timesheets
• Ensure that RTI submissions are made accurately and on time
• Calculate and arrange timely payments of PAYE to HMRC, Pension deductions to the Pension provider and Earnings attachment deductions
• Manipulate data within Excel to provide the Accounts department with a full analysis of payments made
• Ensure that employees are assessed and communicated with in relation to Auto-enrolment requirements and that payrolls remain compliant with the Pensions Regulator

Candidate Requirements:

• Previous bookkeeping/accounts experience including credit control
• AAT part/fully qualified, or Qualified by Experience
• Excellent attention to detail
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Can be flexible and be hands on in other departments should the need arise
• Good at problem solving
• Ability to hit the ground running
• Confident and personable individual
• Be passionate about making the role their own

Job Description:

We have a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Accounts Assistant to join our well-established client on a permanent basis. The company is based in Stoke on Trent and has grown to be a leading and award-winning provider of specialist manufacturing supplies.

The successful candidate will record all financial transactions, including purchases, sales, receipts and payments and will post information to accounting journals/software and reconcile accounts to ensure their accuracy. There is quite an amount of manual work involved in this role; therefore interested candidates need to be able to work with multiple manual cashbooks, spreadsheets and payment of cheques.

As an Accounts Assistant the role will consist of:

• Purchase ledger - posting cheques to the ledger, cash book payments and cash book maintenance
• Credit control including sending out chasing letters
• Sending sales list to HMRC online on a monthly basis
• Monthly processing of P32 on Opera
• Bank reconciliation
• Prepayments/accruals and journal postings
• Inputting employee hours onto spreadsheet from clock cards, then sending this information on to the Accountants for payroll to be processed
• Inputting absences on personnel files (on Opera)
• Updating wage books for the following week

Candidate Requirements:

• Excellent telephone manner
• Good attention to detail
• To work as a team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work on your initiative
• Strong administration skills
• Legal accounts experience is advantageous but not specifically necessary as full training will be given, however the individual will need to be numerate and have basic Excel skills.

Job Description:

Our client is a leading legal firm, they have an excellent reputation and are a stable employer, offering great working conditions. They have a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Cashier / Accounts Assistant to join their established team. You will have the support of the leadership team and the opportunity to work in a thriving environment. 

Our client is looking for a Legal Cashier / Accounts Assistant to join their Finance Department. The successful candidate will be working in a team of 17 based in the Newcastle under Lyme office.   The successful candidate will be involved in various accounting / administration tasks including:  

• Processing of cheque payments and receipts
• Allocating payments to ledgers Reconciling supplier statements
• Taking credit card payments over the phone from clients
• Dealing with internal accounts queries from Fee Earners
• Checking and verifying bank payments
• General administrative tasks and queries within the Accounts Team