Accounts Assistant

Your new role This role will support the finance team with day-to-day operations, with a primary focus on Accounts Payable, ensuring all processes are completed accurately, efficiently, and within agreed deadlines.Key responsibilities: • Processing high volumes of purchase invoices and credit notes • Matching invoices to purchase orders and goods received notes (GRNs) • Managing the purchase ledger for raw materials • Identifying, raising, and logging invoice queries • Liaising with suppliers and internal teams to resolve discrepancies • Maintaining accurate and organised financial records • Processing customer self-billing invoices and related documentation • Supporting the wider finance team with ad hoc duties as required What you'll need to succeed Key Experiences and Qualifications: • Attention to detail - ensure accuracy of work with thorough review and checking. • Strong Microsoft skills, with particular emphasis on MS Excel. • Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems. • Highly organised and able to work using own initiative to challenging deadlines • Extensive experience in a manufacturing business Personal Attributes: • Action orientated - Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames • Driven by results - Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards. • Effective communication - Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal • Strategic agility - recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges. • High Standards - demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions. • Integrity and trust - demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk