Accounts Assistant

TL;DR

Accounts Assistant: Drive end-to-end sales invoicing, manage sales ledger, allocate payments, and perform customer reconciliations in a fast-paced finance function for a scaling embedded computing business with an accent on accuracy, cash flow management, and debtor reporting. Focus on partnering with customer services, escalating disputes, supporting audits, and providing ad-hoc finance assistance.

Location: Hybrid in Colchester Office (UK). Certain roles subject to BPSS level pre-employment security screening.

Company

Provider of high-performance embedded computing solutions for defence, telecoms, and aerospace industries with four decades of expertise.

What you will do

• Drive end-to-end sales invoicing process, issuing invoices and credit notes accurately and on time.
• Partner with Customer Services to ensure smooth and correct invoice raising.
• Own sales ledger accuracy, reconciliations, and control.
• Allocate incoming payments promptly to customer accounts.
• Perform weekly customer account reconciliations and flag disputes or overdue balances.
• Provide aged debtor reporting, support audits, and assist across finance team as needed.

Requirements

• Experience in sales ledger, credit control, invoicing, and/or payroll.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence with numbers.
• Proactive mindset with logical problem-solving and strong organisational skills.
• Confidence working with people across the business.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting external audits.
• Familiarity with Business Central.
• Studying towards or qualified in AAT or similar.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days holidays + bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme.
• Annual profit share bonus.
• Cycle to work, home & tech, and car salary sacrifice schemes.
• Death in service benefit, income protection, employee assistance programme, and virtual GP.
• Employee referral scheme, enhanced parental leave, and generous pension with up to 10% employer contribution.
• One paid volunteering day per year and flexibility around part-time or full-time hours.