Company: FIRST CITY RECRUITMENT LTD
Job Type: Permanent, FullTime
Salary: £28,860 per annum, Pro-rata
Are you an experienced Accounts Assistant looking for a part time role within a friendly, supportive finance team? If yes, we’re recruiting for a reliable and detail focused individual to work 2 days per week (Tuesdays & Thursdays), with the potential for hours to increase over time. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking part time work, strong job stability, and hands on involvement across a variety of finance tasks.
Accounts Assistant Key Responsibilities
- You will support the Finance team with a wide range of accounts and administrative duties
- Accounts Receivable & Credit Control
- Carrying out credit control, professionally chasing overdue accounts
- Raising customer invoices and allocating incoming payments
- Sending out customer statements
- Accounts Payable & Transaction Processing
- Matching purchase orders to delivery notes
- Matching fuel receipts to invoices
- Processing credit notes
- Bulk processing tasks
- Checking for missing invoices
- Financial Administration
- Managing the accounts mailboxes, ensuring emails are prioritised and actioned promptly
- Setting up bank payments
- Managing petty cash
- Checking drivers’ corporate card statements
- Reviewing Barclaycard – MFW and Barclaycard – Bygone accounts
- Providing general administrative support to the Finance team
Accounts Assistant Benefits
- £28,860 full time equivalent salary (£11,544 for 2 days a week / £15.00 per hour)
- Working Tuesdays and Thursdays, part time hours ideal for work–life balance
- Friendly and supportive finance team
- Varied workload with opportunities to develop
- Potential for hours to increase over time
- Stable, long term role
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays (full-time)
- Holiday increases each year by 1 day, up to 25 days (full-time)
- Extra days holiday for your birthday (after 1 year).
- Pension.
- Employee-Owned Trust (after 1 year).
- Local free car parking (not on-site).
- Hours - 8.30am to 5pm, with 1 hour lunch daily.
Accounts Assistant Requirements
- Previous experience as an Accounts Assistant, Finance Administrator, or similar finance role
- Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
- Good organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks
- Confident communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a small, supportive team
- Experience using Sage and MS Office (Excel, Outlook)
If you have the relevant experience and are looking for a part time Accounts Assistant role, we’d love to hear from you, apply now!