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Accounts Assistant

Posted 11 Days Ago
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In-Office
Preston, Lancashire, England
Entry level
In-Office
Preston, Lancashire, England
Entry level
The Accounts Assistant will process financial transactions, perform reconciliations, liaise with stakeholders, and support the finance team's duties while maintaining financial controls.
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We believe that helping people unlock a better retirement starts with helping everyone in our organisation unlock their true potential, and thrive.

To do that, we’re mindful of staying true to the values that make us who we are, and proud of what we do.

More2Life is part of the Key Group of companies and has been a pioneering force in the Equity Release market since its launch in 2008. Today, operating from our offices in Preston, we help over 1000 people every month to confidently release cash from their homes, significantly growing year on year to become one of the largest lifetime mortgage lenders in the UK.

We are hiring for an Accounts Assistant to join our busy transactional finance team. As our Accounts Assistant you will be responsible for ensuring that all more2life financial transactions within your remit are accounted for accurately and on a timely basis and to support key stakeholders as and when required.

Main duties and responsibilities;

  • To process system generated interface files

  • To monitor fund requests and reconcile facility balances

  • To produce daily bank reconciliations to send to external stakeholders

  • To liaise with external funders to meet contractual requirements

  • To post financial transactions into the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner into multiple companies

  • To produce broker commission payments and statements

  • To maintain and where possible improve robust financial controls 

  • To perform various analyses and reconciliations of company data

  • To establish and develop new processes, procedures and reconciliations when required by the business

Key knowledge, skills and experience:

  • Experience of computerised accounting systems.

  • Experience of posting to multiple company Nominal, Sales and Purchase ledgers.

  • Experience of working with Profit & Loss balance sheet statements.

  • Experience of dealing with internal and external customers in an effective manner.

  • Experience of working within strict accounting deadlines.

  • Experience of working with Microsoft Office packages.

  • Will hold or be working towards a recognised accounting qualification (AAT, CIMA etc.).

  • Willingness to use initiative and work without detailed instructions.

  • Ability to plan workload effectively and work alone or as part of a team.

  • Awareness of the importance of processing and posting data accurately.

Most of all we look for people who display and work around the core values of our business:

Ambitious – to break ground to help our customers enjoy a better retirement.
Supportive – relationships are key to everything we do.
Personal – going above and beyond to offer exceptional service.
Integrity – honest, true and transparent in all our relationships.
Responsive – whatever the challenge we’ll deliver the right result.
Expert – experts in our field, our thirst for knowledge never stops
 

Benefits:

  • 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Rising to 28 based on length of service.

  • Additional holiday purchase scheme

  • 1 charity day

  • Tier 1 pension (5% Employee, 8% Employer)

  • Simply Health

  • Life Assurance

Top Skills

Computerised Accounting Systems
MS Office

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