Accounts Assistant in Saltcoats

Location: Kingston Upon Hull
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Wescot Credit Services
Job Hours: Full-time
Remote: Work from home

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Accounts Assistant

**Immediate Start Date available**

If you’re currently working in a finance team and are interested in looking for your next opportunity in this function, we may have just what you’re looking for! We’ve got a great opportunity for a Accounts Assistant to join on a permanent basis, so read on!

We’re looking for people who are interested in growing their careers with us. To be successful in this role you’ll need proven experience of performing bank reconciliations along with commercial awareness skills and the ability to assess financial data and use your initiative to recommend any corrective actions.

As our new Accounts Assistant at Wescot, you will be performing a high volume of bank reconciliations as well as building and maintaining relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues across the business. You’ll be based at our offices in Hull city centre.

In this rewarding role we’ll support you to use your expertise in accounts to support our finance function deliver the best service to our clients. Your new role will involve you carrying out the following duties:

  • Processing of purchase ledger invoices for suppliers
  • Maintaining accruals schedules for month end accruals
  • Produce monthly supplier statement reconciliations
  • Obtain and manage invoice approval sign off process
  • Produce and optimize aged creditors reports
  • Prepare payment runs for suppliers in line with credit terms
  • Maintain prepayments listings for accruals purposes at month end.
  • Processing of staff expense forms and settlement of funds associated with these.
  • Managing credit card system and processes.
  • Processing credit card expense journals
  • Preparing month end expense reconciliations
  • Prepare and circulate expenditure reports
  • Maintaining Capex register after all approvals are received in line with Company Policy and depreciation journals
  • Working with facilities to physical assets are tagged with location and support audits
  • Preparing GL reconciliations
  • Preparing and support monthly VAT submissions for AP side
  • ESOS and SECR reporting
  • Assist with annual financial audit requirements
  • To support you with this, our in-role training means you will be fully briefed and supported throughout. 

    It’s the Wescot colleague’s amazing efforts, hard work and dedication that sets us apart from the rest, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

  • Competitive starting salary with an opportunity to increase over time, there’s also an annual bonus scheme
  • 31 days holiday including bank holidays.
  • Optional private healthcare plan (BUPA)
  • Site specific monthly events, plus summer and winter celebrations
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption leave pay.
  • Gym membership discount
  • Access to free financial advice & services
  • Life insurance (2 x annual salary)
  • Discounts and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops
  • Lots of great incentives where you can win a range of prizes and rewards!
  • Access to our bespoke qualification programmes
  • Once you’re fully competent and confident in your role, we operate a hybrid working business, offering employees the ability to blend between office and home working for better work life balance! If this sounds like you and you have got what it takes, come and join our rapidly expanding team!
  • In 2017, Wescot became part of Cabot Credit Management, which in turn is part of Encore Capital Group. Wescot has over 1,200 employees across 4 UK based locations – Hull, Glasgow, Saltcoats and Telford, our vision is 'to be the industry-leading trusted provider', and we know the only way to achieve that is through our people.

    Diversity and inclusion are very important to us at Wescot and we value diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone.



    About Wescot Credit Services


    Wescot is a UK based debt collection agency. We work on behalf of a number of banking, utility, telecoms and retail finance companies whose customers have fallen behind with their repayments. These companies pass accounts to Wescot to manage and we work with each individual customer to establish affordable and sustainable repayment arrangements for the debt.

    We are authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. We are a member of the Credit Services Association and are proud to be at the forefront in helping to shape best practice standards for the industry.

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