Job Description

Reporting directly to the Finance Manager you will be involved in a range of accounting duties and processes including costing processes, tagging costs and cost reporting along with goods received procedures/reporting, CIS processes, project administration and statistical returns. You will take ownership of all purchase ledger processes using Xero accounting system, match invoices to purchase orders, query un-receipted purchase orders and match the correct invoices to PO's. You will escalate and resolve any invoice queries with suppliers and internal teams and reconcile, prepare weekly supplier payments, inputting data into MS excel spreadsheets and be involved in general financial administration. You will support the finance team in general financial analysis, financial administration, process/systems improvements and support the Finance Manager with various on-going accounting projects. The position will be tailored around the right Finance Professional and with the opportunity to take on further duties in the future.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To be considered for this hands-on Finance Assistant position you will have experience within a similar role, strong communication skills to build internal/external relationships and be used to managing workloads to meet time constraint deadlines. You will be comfortable with MS Excel and financial packages, organised and motivated, along with being a pro-active problem solver. It would be advantageous but not essential if you have worked within the Construction/Manufacturing sector previously with knowledge of Xero accounting systems.