Accounts Assistant, Cardiff

Eco2 Management Services Ltd (EMSL) is looking for a new Full Time Accounts Assistant!

The role sits within the core Finance team and helps to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day financial record keeping. Working closely with a team of project accountants, internal operational Asset Management teams and reporting to the Finance Manager, this role is responsible for timely and accurate update of financial ledgers.

Why Work with Us?

You feel aligned with our Company Values:

- Trust: We trust each other and earn the trust of our clients. We are a safe pair of hands.
- Teamwork: We are there for one another and we work in partnership with our clients.
- Responsibility: We take ownership of tasks and challenges to find the right timely solution.
- Quality: We embrace robust systems and procedures to ensure a high quality, consistent service.
- Creativity We adopt a developer’s zeal, always seeking creative solutions that add value.
We believe in creating a flexible work environment that caters to the diverse needs of our team members.
Your place of work will be our Cardiff office as we value face-to-face collaboration but there will be opportunities to work from home. Our expectation is that new team members will need to be in the office for up to 80% of their week in the early days of their employment to receive training and guidance to ensure they get off to a great start. We will discuss opportunities to work from home more frequently once the training period is complete.
A competitive salary and benefits package is on offer. The salary range for this role is £21-25k per annum (full time). We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and the benefits package includes pension, private healthcare and dental, eye care and a contribution to your gym membership.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounts Assistant:

Maintain purchase ledgers of several companies
Post purchase invoices using the online approval/purchase order system, ensuring allocation to correct purchase order
Reconcile supplier statements to the purchase ledger
Set up new supplier accounts and carry out bank detail verification call backs

Bank reconciliations for several companies:

Correctly record bank transactions
Reconcile the bank accounts periodically

Prepare payment runs for several companies:

Collate PDF copies of invoices showing the required approval trail
Send the payment listing and approval evidence to project accountant for review
Ensure correct posting and allocation of payments on accounting software
Upload payments on to banking software to settle the invoice list provided by (assistant) project accountants

Other Ad hoc duties:

Deal with supplier and customer queries
Ensure appropriate filling of financial records
Ad hoc support to other team members
Work within a system of financial controls and to report on any control issues

Who You Are:

We are keen to offer this role to someone who is wanting to develop themselves and continue learning. These are the skills and experiences that we will be looking for during the application process:

You will:

Ideally have some prior experience in an accounting or finance role.
Have some business administration experience in an environment where there were SLAs, deadlines or processing times and a high volume of work.
Ideally you will have some proficiency in accounting software (we use Sage) but we are prepared to train you up if this is your first finance role. If you can show us you’re capable of picking up new software and following processes, that will be a great start.
Have experience Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel.
Possess a strong degree of self-organisation and an ability to prioritise tasks appropriately.
Be a confident communicator, who builds productive working relationships with your colleagues and suppliers via email, phone and face to face.
Work with a high attention to detail

How to Apply:

Please submit your CV for consideration to hr@eco2uk.com