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Accounts Assistant

Your new role This role will support the finance team with day-to-day operations, with a primary focus on Accounts Payable, ensuring all processes are completed accurately, efficiently, and within agreed deadlines.Key…

Pay rate £27,000 – £28,000/year
Contract type Contract
Posted 21 July 2026

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About this contract

£27,000 - £28,000 per annum

Your new role

This role will support the finance team with day-to-day operations, with a primary focus on Accounts Payable, ensuring all processes are completed accurately, efficiently, and within agreed deadlines.Key responsibilities:

Processing high volumes of purchase invoices and credit notes
Matching invoices to purchase orders and goods received notes (GRNs)
Managing the purchase ledger for raw materials
Identifying, raising, and logging invoice queries
Liaising with suppliers and internal teams to resolve discrepancies
Maintaining accurate and organised financial records
Processing customer self-billing invoices and related documentation
Supporting the wider finance team with ad hoc duties as required

What you'll need to succeed

Key Experiences and Qualifications:

Attention to detail - ensure accuracy of work with thorough review and checking.
Strong Microsoft skills, with particular emphasis on MS Excel.
Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
Highly organised and able to work using own initiative to challenging deadlines
Extensive experience in a manufacturing business

Personal Attributes:

Action orientated - Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames
Driven by results - Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards.
Effective communication - Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal
Strategic agility - recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges.
High Standards - demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions.
Integrity and trust - demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role

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