Senior Accounts Assistant Job in Birmingham

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Senior Accounts Assistant Job in Birmingham

Job Description
Senior Accounts Assistant required for an exciting temporary to permanent role based in Saltley, Birmingham. The role is responsible for the running of the Accounts department with a clear progresion path to Accounts Manager within 12 months for the right candidate. This is a fantastic opportunity for career development.

Senior Accounts Assistant 

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Posting cash received to customer account
Reconciling customer payments to invoices
Updating & reconciling cash book to nominal sales ledger
Checking and printing delivery notes for despatch of goods for Spares / MANP/service
Processing of sales Invoices for all departments
Setting up new sales ledger accounts and maintaining information on the Sales Ledger
Assisting other staff where necessary and dealing with any queries from customers / internal sources
Checks/ confirms credit rating for new customs
Dealing with Bank Guarantees.
Checking & posting of timecards for production hours
Entering timecards to spreadsheet and reconciling the costing on the ledger.
Liaise with customers
Liaise with Auditors / Audit preparations
Liaise with Banks
Maintains staff absence and holiday records,
Authorising / checking payment runs before processing through the Bank
Once payments runs are set up on the Bank, check / authorise the payment online
Release the online payments
Prepares & analyses reports, detailing income & expenditure
Manage customer accounts ensuring on-time payments are received
Credit control
Prepares / calculates overtime for payroll system
Processing the monthly payroll
Checking / Authorising, salary payment once the payment has been set up on the bank
Releasing payment through the Bank
Preparing Payroll reports for the Inland revenue
Issuing of payslips
Dealing with pension scheme (auto enrolment) and processing of payment to pension company
Processing cost of sales for all departs
Nominal journal postings for all cost of sales reports
Preparing Utilisation report, posting of distribution and overhead hours
Calculation / posting of inter Company expense
Calculation / posting intercompany profit
Prepares information and carries out month end postings
Prepares all monthly reports for ATM, including consolidation
Preparation of monthly reports for MD
Preparation of monthly reports for departmental heads
Reconciliation of VAT returns to nominal ledgers
Cash collection
Maintains office / workplace consumables stocks
Training
Providing cover for when Accounts Assistant is absent
Key requirements:

AAT Qualified (or equivalent)
Minimum 3 Years within an accounts environment
Key Benefits:

Starting pay will be £30,000 to £33,000 dependent on experience
Working hours are Monday to Thursday – 08.00 to 17.15 with ½ hour lunch / Friday – 8.00 to 13.00
Holiday – 20 days per year with 3 days saved for Christmas
Opportunity of promotion to the role of Accounts Manager

Job Type: Temporary, Full Time
Location: Birmingham
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands (County)
Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £30000 – £33000/annum Temporary to Permanent
Benefits: Temporary to Permanent