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Job Description: Accountant / Accounts Administrator

Location: Subway Street, Hull, HU3 4EL

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm (30 minutes for unpaid lunch break), Option for un-paid study leave to be negotiated if the candidate is completing their AAT studies.

Salary circa £25,000-£28,000 dependent on experience.

Why Youngs Foods?Youngs Foods Limited is one of the leading names in the Food Service wholesale industry within the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire area and continues to see growth each year. There’s plenty of opportunity to progress within the company and job security. Youngs Foods is a family run business and is invested in its people, every employee is valued.

Job Overview

As an Accounts Administrator you will be a valued member of our growing team working alongside our Financial Controller and Accounts Manager. You will be responsible for assisting the Accounts Team with day-to-day activities ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the Finance Function whilst adhering to accounting controls and procedures.

This role will give the successful candidate excellent exposure to varied accounting duties and is a brilliant opportunity for an innovative and driven person to bring their ideas to the team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Financial Controller and working as part of a small, dedicated Finance team you will help to assist in the following areas:

• Sales Ledger – Cash postings, bank postings, Debtors control, raising credit notes. Liaising with customers to resolve queries where necessary. Reconciling driver’s takings and receipts.
• Adhoc Stock count postings.
• Purchase Ledger – 3-way match of purchase orders, Goods in notes and Purchase invoices. Supplier invoice queries. Inputting Supplier invoices onto the system. Assisting with preparing payment runs for the Director. Supplier statement reconciliations.
• Bank Reconciliations.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing the department’s process and procedure documents.
• Assist with improving elements within the ERP system, logging support tickets with IT.
• Sales and Profit analysis, building Finance reports within the ERP / Qlik system using Pivot data (Full training will be provided).
• Assisting the team to prepare VAT returns.
• Maintaining Lease registers.
• Maintaining Fixed Asset registers and other balance sheet items.
• Credit Card reconciliations.
• Assisting to calculate overtime hours for submission to Payroll.
• Helping to answer the overflow customer phone calls and order taking.
• Identify areas for cost reduction / efficiency savings.
• Housekeeping duties within the department, scanning documents to the server, archiving documents and filing.

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Knowledge & Skills

• AAT Qualified.
• Basic knowledge of VAT accounting.
• Competent knowledge of Debits and Credits double entry.
• Held a similar position previously.
• Competent Microsoft skills in particular, Microsoft Excel.

The Person

• Strong administrative and organisation skills to be able to work at a fast and efficient pace.
• Attention to detail, the ability to have a questioning mind.
• Excellent team worker and communication skills to be able to work well as part of a close-knit team.
• Hardworking – prepared to go the extra mile and have versatility to help other departments during busy periods when required.
• Professional, confident, and self-disciplined with the ability to work unsupervised.
• Be able to be flexible and have a proactive nature to bring new ideas to the team.
• Follow tasks to completion and not wait to be chased.
• Environmentally aware and cost conscious.

Specific KPI’s and Deliverables

• All purchase invoices matched and input in a timely manner before they are due for payment.
• All sales postings allocated onto the system on the received date / credit notes raised on the day of returns.
• Supplier invoice queries resolved within 7 days.
• Other KPI’s to be discussed during annual targets and performance reviews.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hull: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Must be AAT qualified or studying Level 3 or above

Education:

• Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

Experience:

• accounting: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person