Accounts Assistant Part Time

Preston, Lancashire
Key Group

Key Group is one of the most exciting, forward-thinking brands in financial services, focused on helping people unlock a better retirement since 1998. Our mission is simple: To be the UK’s leading later life lending company.

We are hiring for an Accounts Assistant to join our Group transactional finance team, which has responsibility for maintaining the purchase ledger, sales ledger, cash book, banking arrangements and payroll.

Main role and responsibilities

Purchase ledger:

• Ensuring that we run an efficient and effective purchase process ensuring that Group purchases are appropriately approved in a timely manner and suppliers are paid on time.

• Assist in maintaining the shared purchase invoice inbox, and effectively dealing with both supplier and colleague queries to ensure a smooth process and maintain good working relationships.

• Matching invoices to approved purchase orders which have been receipted on our system.

• Assist with weekly payment runs.

Other duties may include:

• Generate and send customer invoices.

• Take payments from customers over the phone.

• Post financial transactions from the bank and credit card statements into the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner into multiple companies.

• Assist with the Group’s bank reconciliations.

• Perform various analyses and reconciliations of company data.

• Process system generated interface files

• Assist with any other duties required to be undertaken by the Transactional Finance team and as directed by the Transactional Finance Manager.

This role would suit someone who has experience in using computerised banking systems and is used to working to strict accounting deadlines.

Personal Qualities:

• Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with Customers and suppliers and at all levels within the organisation

• Ability to identify issues and use own initiative, to investigate problems and identify potential solutions

• Ability to own and manage workload effectively and to deadlines.

• Ability to work alone and as part of a team

• Awareness of the importance of adhering to processes and controls and of processing and posting data accurately

Most of all we look for people who display and work around the core values of our business:

Ambitious – to break ground to help our customers enjoy a better retirement.
Supportive – relationships are key to everything we do.
Personal – going above and beyond to offer exceptional service.
Integrity – honest, true and transparent in all of our relationships.
Responsive – whatever the challenge we’ll deliver the right result.
Expert – experts in our field, our thirst for knowledge never stops

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Rising to 28 days based on length of service

• Additional holiday purchase scheme

• 1 charity day

• Tier 1 pension (5% Employee, 8% Employer)

• Simply Health

• Life Assurance