Seniro Accounts Assistant

Senior Accounts Assistant
Location: Syston (Hybrid Working)
Rate: £15.00 - £17.00 per hour (depending on experience)
Contract: Temporary - 3 Months
Systems: Sage experience desirable

Macildowie are supporting a well-established organisation in Syston to recruit a Senior Accounts Assistant for an initial three-month temporary assignment. This is a senior role within the transactional finance team, ideal for someone experienced in high-volume processing who can take ownership of day-to-day ledger activity. Hybrid working is available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Processing scheduled payments to external partners with a high level of accuracy.
• Managing a busy shared finance mailbox, triaging queries and ensuring timely responses.
• Handling expense claims, ensuring correct authorisation and compliance with internal policies.
• High-volume Accounts Payable duties including invoice processing, coding, authorisation workflow and payment preparation.
• Performing supplier statement reconciliations and resolving supplier queries.
• Raising monthly sales invoices to external clients and correcting any billing errors.
• Liaising with stakeholders to ensure all required information (references, approvals, documentation) is in place to support timely payments.
• Providing wider transactional and administrative support to the Finance team as required.

About You:

• Strong background in transactional finance (AP/AR), ideally in a high-volume environment.
• Experience managing a busy shared mailbox and prioritising queries effectively.
• Confident processing large volumes of purchase invoices.
• Experience with self-billing, reconciliations or petty cash is beneficial.
• Well organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to work to deadlines.
• Clear communicator who can work well both independently and within a team.
• Sage and strong MS Excel skills desirable.

If you're immediately available or coming to the end of an assignment and want to step into a senior transactional role within a supportive team, please apply today or contact Will Boyd at Macildowie for more information.

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