Accounts Assistant

Main Purpose of Role

Duncan and Todd Group are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to provide maternity cover within our finance department.

The successful candidate will be responsible for completing and assisting in a variety of accounting responsibilities to maintain the seamless operation of month end and day to day finance matters. This role offers a diverse range of tasks to enhance and expand on any financial experience. This role is 32 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Core Responsibilities

Finance and Accounts

Month end tasks including:

• Prepare and post monthly journals
• Prepare and post contact lens direct debit receipts and accruals, reconcile income between the retail system and finance system
• Deal with all matters relating to credit cards: issue card holders their monthly statements, monitor compliance to processes, deal with all credit card admin matters
• Analyse and post all credit card costs
• Investigate and resolve any differences in intercompany balances
• Provide monthly breakdown of travel spend and credit card spend
• Review sundry margins for all retail branches to ensure transactions are captured correctly and provide relevant commentary for any anomalies
• Issue cheque refunds to patients and maintain tracker
• Assist with daily bank allocations
• Assist with matching of NHS receipts to claims submitted and providing updates to branches
• Assist the Senior Accounts Assistant with tasks relating to Smart Employee Eyecare business including monitoring and actioning mailbox queries, allocating corporate receipts, reconcile sales ledger accounts and resolve any discrepancies and setting up new corporate customers in the finance system
• Assist in reconciling and ensure receipts are timely for Retail Corporate debtors
• Assist purchase ledger with invoice posting and statement reconciliations as and when required
• Support management with adhoc tasks

Other

• Act as an ambassador for the Company at all times, leading by example to promote exceptional customer service, to both internal and external customers, at all times.
• Maintain good working relationships with all other staff, both within the finance team and in the wider organisation.
• On the job training will be provided

Beneficial experience

• Required to have month end experience
• Beneficial to have worked in a high volume environment
• Beneficial to have previous experience in a similar role
• Beneficial to be competent in excel and capable of manipulating data in excel
• SAP experience is desirable but not necessary as training with be provided

Benefits

By joining our team at Duncan and Todd Group, you will have access to a range of appealing company benefits. We believe in supporting our employees professionally and personally and these benefits are just one way to demonstrate our commitment:

Staff Discount

We want to reward and ensure our employees have access to quality eyewear and our latest eyewear trends and offer:

• 2 x 100% discount on spectacles or sunglasses or annual supply of contact lenses per calendar year

It does not stop there, we also want to ensure your friends and family can enjoy these benefits too and offer:

• 6 x 50% discount on spectacles or sunglasses for family and friends.

High Street Vouchers

Who does not like saving money? We provide access to a partner discount platform which provides discounts for high street shops, supermarkets, restaurants, and cinemas.

Employee Assistance Programme

We are committed to supporting our employees well-being and success. Therefore we offer all employees free access to our Employee Assistance Programme. This includes, but not limited to, confidential support for a wide range of personal and work-related issues; Well being and Mental Health Support and a wide range of online resources.

Pension Scheme/ Salary Sacrifice

Cycle to Work Scheme

We wish to promote healthy life styles whilst helping to reduce carbon footprints.

Hybrid Working