Accounts Assistant
Salary: £27000 - £29000
Location: North Shields
Location: North Shields – Manufacturing Environment
Working Pattern: Condensed hours – Monday to Thursday (longer days), Friday off
This role is a combination of sales ledger and payroll.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Maintain and manage the sales ledger
- Raise sales invoices
- Post receipts and allocate cash
- Resolve customer account queries
- Assist with chasing outstanding debts
- Process monthly payroll accurately
- Deal with starters and leavers
- Calculate overtime and additional payments
- Prepare and post payroll journals, pensions, and associated returns
- Provide hands-on support across other transactional finance areas (purchase ledger, expenses, and general ledger posting) when required
- Maintain accurate financial records, ensuring data integrity and audit-ready documentation
Personal Profile
- Comfortable working as part of a small, close-knit finance team, while also able to use own initiative
- Hands-on and flexible, enjoying varied duties in a busy manufacturing environment
- Well organised and able to work to deadlines with a high level of accuracy
- Adaptable and willing to support different areas of finance as business needs change
- Happy to work longer hours over a four-day condensed working week, with Fridays off
- It is essential that you have experience processing end to end payroll