finance associate

Role Overview & Responsibilities

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Finance administrator to come and join our Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to work closely with the Finance Manager to ensure the smooth operation of all Finance matters.

Primarily, this role will provide an effective and efficient financial and administrative support to the Finance team, as well as contributing to quality customer service, both internally and externally and, performing the day-to-day processing of financial transactions to ensure that the Company finances are maintained in an effective, up to date and accurate manner. The role requires a high level of numeracy, communication and time management skills.

The Company

Pym & Wildsmith (Metal Finishers) Ltd has over 40 years’ experience in providing high-quality finishes to UK industry. Our Headquarters are based in Bramshall, Staffordshire. Our extensive facilities include powder coating, wet spray, EPD, shot blasting and pre-treatments as well as an experienced technical department.

As an employee-owned Company, our people and customers are at the heart of what we do, and we are committed to investment in order to improve growth, whilst acknowledging and understanding the environmental factors and making it a better future for everyone.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Process Sales Ledger entries from source documents, create and distribute customer statements.
• Follow credit control procedures to ensure prompt settlement of customer account balances.
• Process customer receipts and reconcile customer accounts.
• Process supplier invoices in Sage, reconcile supplier statements and deal with supplier queries.
• Create and distribute supplier remittance advices.
• Provide administrative support such as scanning, filing, data entry, answering phones and processing incoming mail.
• Proactively look for ways of improving the efficiency and quality of output within the financial processes.
• Liaise with customers and suppliers via phone and email, ensuring the best possible levels of customer service.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience using Sage 50 Accounts.
• AAT or part qualified is desirable.
• A good understanding of accounting principles through either relevant experience or studying for an accounting qualification.
• Microsoft Office [Word, Excel, Outlook] to Intermediate level
• Ability to input accounting data into the accounting system with speed and accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Confident and resourceful
• Must have ability to work well within a team, in a busy office environment that often demands high levels of concentration.
• Able to manage high volume workload
• Willingness to accept responsibility
• Readily adaptable to changes in working procedures and practices and is open to opportunities to improve own skills
• Flexible attitude to cover other tasks

Part time hours 24 to 30 hours per week.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 24-30 per week

Salary: From £10.97 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Application question(s):

• How many years Sage Accounts experience do you have?

Work Location: In person

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About Pym and Wildsmith

Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 51 to 200 Employees
Type: Company - Private
Website: www.pymandwildsmith.co.uk