The company is re-organising its administration and as part of that re-organisation a vacancy has arisen for an accounts assistant focussing on our retail operations. The company is seeking to recruit a highly numerate and diligent accounts assistant who can quickly integrate herself/himself and provide support to the financial controller of the retail business.

Job Specifics

• Maintain compete control of the accounts payable and receivable function and ensure accuracy in pricing and quantity in one of the retail stores
• Maintain weekly bank / cash reconciliations and investigate any issues across our service station stores
• Prepare weekly margin reports in specific shop departments
• Ad-Hoc projects as directed by the financial controller including sales and margin analysis, overhead tracking and control.

The Person

The job will suit a newly qualified accounting technician or experienced part-qualified technician seeking to broaden their scope of work with some flexibility in the working hours . The successful candidate will also have the following attributes

• Be accurate and timely in all aspects of work
• Build good relationships and support a culture of high customer service and standards
• Be computer literate, including MS Excel
• Be a good communicator to all levels of the business

Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications and includes access to staff pension and life assurance.