Finance Assistance

Contract Type: Full Time, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Location: Preston - Hybrid working - 3 days in office Working Hours: 08:00 - 16:30 - Monday - Friday Salary: £25,000 per year Mainstay Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Finance Assistant for a hybrid role based in Preston. You will be working in the office up to 3 times a week to support the business with the allocation of the construction and maintenance project cost of sales and any other related tasks. Duties of the role include: Payment reconciliations, Schedules and preparing further analysis, resolve unallocated and cancelled transactions or costs, validating the accuracy of ledger postings to ensure they are coded correctly, ensuring all project schedules are updated regularly,preparing journals to clear down incorrectly posted costs Candidate Requirements Excellent IT skills, with experience in manipulating, handling, and allocating large sets of data. Previous experience working in finance is essential, ideally in accounts payable or accounts receivable. You will need to be a strong user of excel and able to manipulate complex data concisely You must have excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships at all levels, whilst managing a large workload and working to deadlines. It is desirable that you have experience using SAP systems and interfaces valuable, although you will need to be IT literate Due to the vetting requirements candidates must be able to pass SC Clearance.Package Up to 6% contributory pension scheme 25 Days annual leave Volunteer leave One paid professional subscription Life Assurance Policy Employee discount and reward schemes