Accounts Assistant

Your new company
You will be joining a well established organisation operating within the energy and infrastructure sector, supporting essential services across Northern Ireland. The organisation plays a key role in delivering sustainable solutions while maintaining a strong commitment to its people, communities and environmental responsibility. With a values led culture and a proven focus on employee engagement and development, this is an excellent opportunity to join a forward thinking business that invests in its staff and promotes a healthy work life balance.

Your new role
Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will be a key part of the finance team, supporting day to day financial operations with a strong focus on Accounts Payable and finance administration. This is a varied role offering exposure to month end processes, reconciliations and procurement support.Your responsibilities will include matching, coding and processing supplier invoices, maintaining accurate invoice logs, reconciling supplier statements and acting as a first point of contact for supplier queries. You will support purchase order processing, assist with debtor administration, maintain accurate records and contribute to month end activities including accruals and prepayments. Strong attention to detail, process compliance and effective communication will be critical to your success.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Previous experience working in a finance environment, ideally within sales or purchase ledger


• Experience handling high volumes of transactions


• Strong numerical ability and excellent attention to detail


• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills


• Confident communication skills with a customer focused approach


• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities


• Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of the business


• GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English

Experience using accounting systems such as Sage would be advantageous.

What you'll get in return

• £14.00 - £15.00 per hour


• 40 hours per week


• Paid holidays


• On site parking


• An opportunity to join a passionate team with great culture


• Based in Antrim


• Possibility of contract extension

What you need to do now
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