Accounts Assistant

Role: Accounts Assistant

Location: Northallerton

Pay: £15 - £17.00 per hour PAYE

Contract: Temp to perm

Hours: Mon- Fri, 37 hours per week, 08:30 - 17:00 (early finish Fridays)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Assistant to support a growing housing developer delivering high-quality homes across Yorkshire and the North East.

Purpose of role:

To provide accurate, timely and efficient support to the finance team, enabling robust financial control across the business, supporting ledger maintenance, reconciliations, supplier/customer queries, and assisting with month-end and job-costing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process daily sales and purchase invoices (raising, checking, coding, posting)
• Maintain purchase and sales ledgers, and reconcile supplier/customer statements
• Perform regular bank reconciliations and cash-book maintenance
• Chase outstanding supplier credits/queries and customer balances (credit control support)
• Support the month-end close process: accruals, prepayments, journals, and control account reconciliations
• Provide financial and administrative support to the Finance Manager: expense claims, petty cash, ad-hoc reporting and analysis

Key Responsibilities:

• Previous experience (ideally 1-3 years) in a similar accounts role
• Experience of accounting software and strong Excel skills
• Good communication skills - dealing with site teams, suppliers, finance team
• Construction/dev/contractor experience would be advantageous (helpful but not essential)
• Professional, reliable and able to keep confidentiality of financial information

To apply, please send your CV to (url removed)