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