Senior Accounts Assistant - Bristol

Job summary

A well-established and growing manufacturing business is seeking a Senior Accounts Assistant to join its Finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a finance professional with strong operational experience and a keen eye for detail to play a key role in supporting financial processes, reporting, and decision-making across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support daily and weekly processing of invoices and statements
• Manage multi-currency weekly payment runs, ensuring timely supplier payments
• Prepare royalty statements and monthly payroll reports
• Review trade creditors, goods received not invoiced, trade debtors, and accrued income reports, resolving aged transactions
• Collaborate with Customer Services to resolve financial queries
• Conduct weekly multi-currency bank reconciliations
• Maintain and review stock records, scrap levels, and monthly stock reconciliations
• Forecast and plan multi-currency cash flow, including administration of forward currency contracts
• Act as finance point of contact for ERP system support, testing, upgrades, and data analysis
• Administer Delegation of Authority policy and report any breaches
• Support month-end processing and preparation of P&L, Balance Sheet, group consolidation, and intercompany reconciliations
• Assist with budgeting, strategic planning, and ad hoc financial analysis
• Complete National Statistic Surveys and maintain departmental process documentation
• Provide support for all daily finance activities and cover for the Finance Manager when required

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