Accounts Assistant
Chester
Flexible Part-Time Hours (22.5 hours per week / 3 days per week)
£26,000 FTE
At Proximo, the UK’s leading provider of specialist and adapted replacement vehicles, we are dedicated to keeping people on the move. When vehicles are out of action, we step in to provide replacements, ensuring our customers maintain their independence and mobility.
We’re looking for a motivated, personable Accounts Assistant to join our Chester team. It’s a great opportunity to work in a supportive, fast-paced environment that values collaboration and success. If you enjoy working with numbers, thrive in a busy environment, and take pride in accurate work, this is the role for you.
This opportunity offers flexible working arrangements averaging 22.5 hours per week. Whether you prefer three full working days or flexible hours spread across the week, we’re happy to work with you to find a pattern that suits your lifestyle.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll play a key role in supporting the finance function across the business, with responsibilities including:
- Processing daily company income
- Raising and recording payments across relevant systems
- Handling day-to-day finance queries
- Managing shared and personal finance inboxes
- Processing staff expenses and company credit cards
- Completing bank reconciliations across multiple accounts
- Responding to supplier queries and incoming ledger-related calls
- Processing sales and purchase ledger invoices
- Posting journals to support month-end processes
- Sending remittances and resolving related queries
- Carrying out system reconciliations to maintain accuracy
- Inputting and managing direct debits
We’re looking for someone who is organised, proactive, and eager to contribute to a collaborative team environment.
You’ll ideally have:
- At least 1 years’ experience within a finance or accounts role
- AAT Level 2 qualification (desirable)
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- The ability to manage high volumes of data and meet deadlines
- Confidence communicating with suppliers and third-party contacts
- Experience using accounting software, ideally Sage
- Strong Excel and Microsoft Office skills
- A positive, self-motivated approach to work
- The ability to work independently as well as part of a team
What we offer
We’re an Investors in People Silver employer, and we invest in our people with the right tools, support, and training to help you do your best work.
Our benefits include:
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off (FTE).
- Hybrid working after three months’ probation.
- Medicash healthcare plan, including optical, dental, physiotherapy, and more.
- Events throughout the year, including an end-of-year party.
- Funding for qualifications and apprenticeship schemes.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Pension contributions of 5% from you and 5% from us.
- £1,000 employee referral bonus.
- Monthly wellbeing hour.
- Tech scheme and retail cashback scheme.
- Service reward scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Casual dress code.
We’d love to hear from you. Apply with your latest CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.
Before you go…
For Proximo, having a friendly, diverse, and inclusive atmosphere is crucial to achieving our best-in-class goal. When everyone feels free to be their best selves at work, Proximo thrives. We want our employee base to match the variety of our customer base. While we strive to maintain a culture where employees feel appreciated and valued for their individual potential, we celebrate diversity.
Our dedication to diversity is authentic, continuously developing, and top-down driven.
Proximo takes great satisfaction in being open to everyone. No matter your gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, marital status, ethnicity, religion, or social class, we encourage you to apply. We support diverse workplaces where our employees may always give and display their best selves.
We'd love to hear from you if you need flexibility in time, locations, or ways you do your job. Additionally, we want to make sure you receive help during the application process so you can give it your all. Please indicate on your application form if you need any reasonable adjustments made during the application process.
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