Accounts Assistant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is currently supporting a growing, well-established business based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which is looking to appoint an experienced Accounts Assistant to join their finance team. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who has a solid background in transactional finance and is now looking to take ownership of both purchase and sales ledger responsibilities within a growing business.
The role of Accounts Assistant will suit someone who works well in a busy environment, has strong attention to detail, and would enjoy taking ownership of the day-to-day accounting process from start to finish.
What will you be doing?
- Processing, coding and reconciling high-volume purchase invoices.
- Managing supplier statements, resolving invoice discrepancies and preparing weekly/monthly payment runs.
- Raising sales invoices, allocating customer receipts and reconciling debtor accounts.
- Proactively chasing overdue payments and maintaining professional customer relationships.
- Supporting with cashbook postings and daily bank reconciliations.
- Setting up new supplier and customer accounts and ensuring accurate financial records.
- Assisting with resolving complex queries across both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
- Providing occasional support to wider finance functions during busier periods.
What skills are we looking for?
- An experienced Accounts Assistant or someone with strong exposure to both purchase ledger and sales ledger.
- Confident in handling high-volumes of invoices.
- Skilled in building relationships with suppliers, customers and internal teams.
- Proficient in Excel and accounting software (ideally Sage).
- Highly organised, proactive and able to meet deadlines under pressure.
What's on offer:
- Flexible hours.
- Free onsite parking.
- Supportive finance team with opportunities to develop and take on more responsibility.
- Secure, stable business with a friendly working culture.
For more information, please contact Eleanor Kirk.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
