Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

Liverpool

Fulltime, Permanent

Downing is a family-owned and market leading real estate investment, development, and management business; highly regarded across both commercial and student accommodation sectors, with more than 30 years of industry experience.

We deliver best-in-class developments, with over £2bn of developments successfully completed to date. We have a further £1.6bn in the pipeline and over £1bn under management.

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant to join our busy Finance department at our Head Office in Liverpool City Centre.

We look forward to welcoming a dedicated professional to our team who thrives in a fast-paced environment and bring a meticulous and proactive approach to their work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accurate input and maintenance of ledgers for various trading entities.
• Checking and prioritising purchase invoices for multi-companies before inputting.
• Matching invoices to purchase orders and delivery notes where relevant.
• Obtain authorisation for timely payment and producing the payment run.
• Reconciling supplier statement balances to ledgers.
• Organising and filing invoices electronically.
• Payments team support, dealing with enquiries from tenants via email and over the phone to process their payments.
• Preparation of multiple bank reconciliations, particularly client accounts and reconciliations of client funds
• Reconciliation of monthly expenses, company credit cards and petty cash, posting of entries into the accounting system.
• Sales ledger processing, credit control.
• Answering queries by phone & email.
• Assist the finance dept with any other duties as required.

Key Requirements:

• Experience working as an Accounts Assistant
• Excellent IT skills including a sound knowledge of Microsoft Office and strong Excel skills
• Good communication skills and able to work to own initiative
• Good organisational skills
• Smartly presented with first class customer service skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Company Pension Contribution
• Gym Access
• Modern Office in the centre of Liverpool’s Business district
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Assurance Cover