Finance Assistant

Salary/Rate:£29000 - £31000 per annum + Excellent benefits and progression
Job type:Perm
Location:Bradford, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be recruiting for a fabulous organisation based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, who are looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join their well established finance team.

Reporting to the Finance Manager this is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Finance Assistant to join a thriving business that offers long term development and progression and the chance to really make the role your own. Accounts Payable experience is essential together with an analytical, solution led approach as you will be responsible for high value queries and management reporting.

What will you be doing?

  • Managing, processing and resolving invoice queries.
  • Acting as the first point of contact to vendors for questions, support and issues around invoicing and payment inquiries.
  • Manage invoices, including monitoring the invoice approval queues and working with Finance for coding on invoices that get sent manually.
  • Working across multiple entities and currencies to process large volumes of invoices with accuracy.
  • Reconciling statements and investigating any discrepancies, through to resolution.
  • As a Purchase Ledger Clerk, you will be working on reducing debit balances and cleansing accounts to keep the ledgers current and maintained
  • Maintain & support accounting and accounting control procedures.

What skills are we looking for?

  • 2+ years of Accounts Payable/accounting/finance experience in a general office environment, demonstrating a general knowledge of accounting systems.
  • Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
  • Experience working in a high-volume input role
  • Intermediate excel skills
  • Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Experience of working within finance and audit rules and regulations is highly advantageous.

What's on offer?

  • Free on-site parking
  • Opportunity to join an industry leader
  • Excellent opportunity to progress.

For more information, please contact Sue Wallis

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.

Job ref: SW/6105Post Date: 29.07.25

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