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

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