Assistant Accountant

Sewell Wallis are currently working with a growing and fast-paced business based in Barnsley, who are looking to recruit an Assistant Accountant to join their finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong transactional finance experience who enjoys working in a hands-on role and is looking to build on their existing skillset and develop professionally.

Working within a high-volume finance environment, you will play a key role across reconciliations, purchase ledger and payments, whilst also gaining valuable exposure to month-end processes and management accounts support. The business can offer genuine long-term development, making this an ideal role for someone looking to progress beyond transactional finance over time. Please note, this is a fully office-based role.

What will you be doing?

• Completing daily bank reconciliations across GBP and USD accounts, including posting monies in and out and investigating discrepancies.
• Reconciling PayPal, Sage Pay and other payment platforms, ensuring all balances are accurate and up to date.
• Processing supplier invoices and credit notes, matching invoices to purchase orders and goods received where applicable.
• Obtaining and reconciling supplier statements, resolving invoice disputes and liaising with suppliers to manage queries effectively.
• Reviewing and monitoring purchase orders, setting up new supplier accounts and managing supplier remittances in line with company procedures.
• Running weekly and monthly supplier payment runs, processing urgent payments and supporting international payment activity.
• Processing employee expenses, maintaining petty cash records and ensuring all expenditure is coded accurately and appropriately authorised.
• Providing support with Credit Control activities when required, including chasing overdue payments and maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Reconciling company credit cards, reviewing expenditure and ensuring supporting documentation is accurate and complete.
• Supporting intercompany accounting processes, ensuring balances reconcile correctly and reporting requirements are maintained.
• Working closely with overseas suppliers and supporting import and logistics-related finance activities, including reviewing and querying import and duty declarations.
• Assisting with month-end processes including accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets and supporting management accounts preparation as experience develops.

What skills are we looking for?

• Previous experience within an Assistant Accountant, Accounts Assistant or similar finance role.
• Strong Purchase Ledger, reconciliation and transactional finance experience.
• Excellent Excel skills are essential, including confident use of SUMIFS & XLOOKUP and/or VLOOKUP.
• Experience reconciling bank accounts and payment platforms.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving ability.
• Confident communicating with suppliers and customers.
• Ability to manage workload effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Sage or similar systems would be advantageous.
• Experience with foreign currency or international transactions would be beneficial.
• AAT qualified or studying would be desirable, but not essential.

What's on offer?

• Free onsite parking.
• Pension scheme.
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced and supportive finance team.
• Genuine long-term progression into month-end and management accounts responsibilities.
• Varied and hands-on finance role with real ownership and development potential.

If you are looking for an opportunity where you can develop your accounting career further, please apply below or contact Eleanor Kirk for more information.

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.