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

 

The benefits

25 days holiday

+ bank holidays

Life assurance

cover

Mental health

support

Company pension

contribution

Work for us

Our people are our success and there has never been a more exciting time to join Downing as it enters the most significant expansion for three decades.

Our team is united in a mutual respect and a desire to move the business forward. Here you’ll find all our latest job vacancies. If you’re excited by opportunity and want to be valued for your contribution, take a look at what we currently have available.

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