ASHLEY REES
ASSOCIATES Finance & Accountancy Recruitment Specialists

A global service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Delivery Administrator to join their team.

Working for a business that offers career progression and professional development, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Support the delivery team by managing internal systems, interfacing with clients and suppliers
• Process payroll
• Take ownerships of team events and team calls
• Reconcile accounts
• Manage office pantry and stationery
• Deal with incoming and outgoing post and email

The successful candidate will have worked in an office previously, be able to demonstrate a high degree of self-motivation and initiative and be proficient with Microsoft Excel.

A financial services organisation based in north Bristol is currently recruiting a Credit Controller to join their team.

Working for a growing business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Chasing overdue payments
• Assisting with credit report writing
• Carrying out credit assessments
• Developing and maintaining client relationships
• Assisting with debt review meetings
• Recommend credit limits and structures

The successful candidate must have previous invoice factoring experience.  Good excel skills and the ability to proficiently analyse data are also essential.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting for a Graduate Finance role within their rapidly expanding team.

Looking for a fast-developing individual who wishes to quickly advance in the corporate world, this is an excellent entry-level position.

Duties will include:

• Account reconciliation
• Payroll processing
• Maintaining the billing system
• Support with systems implementation and improvements
• Data analysis
• Dealing with Senior Stakeholders within the business
• Various administrative duties

Strong academics and a proficiency on excel are essential.  The successful candidate must also be a confident communicator and someone who enjoys responsibility

A retail organisation based in Bath is currently recruiting an Assistant Management Accountant to join their team.

Working for a well-recognised and growing business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Assisting with budgeting and forecasting
• KPI monitoring
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Assisting with the provision of month end commentary
• Mentor junior members of staff
• Data and spreadsheet manipulation
• Calculation fixed assets, accruals and depreciation

The successful candidate will ideally be studying CIMA/ACCA and have experience of taking accounts to trial balance.  Good spreadsheeting skills are also essential.

A manufacturing organisation based in Stroud is currently recruiting an Accounts Clerk to join their team.

With the offer of AAT study support, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone in the early stages of their accountancy career.

Duties will include:

• Processing purchase and sales ledger invoices
• Bank reconciliations
• Statement reconciliations
• Dealing with customer and supplier queries
• Maintaining excel spreadsheets
• Shadowing and assisting more senior members of staff

Previous experience of working within an office environment is essential.  The successful candidate must have a good academic background and be proficient on Microsoft Excel.

A distribution company based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Stock Controller to join their team.

Working within a team of 6, this role will comprise mainly of back office administration but will also involve assisting in the warehouse.

Duties will include:

• Booking delivery slots
• Ensuring quality control processes are followed
• Stock transfers
• Assisting with despatches
• Dealing with logistical queries
• Updating and maintaining the stock system
• Assisting with goods-in

Previous experience of working within a warehouse environment is essential.  The successful candidate will also be comfortable using Microsoft Office products and a be a confident communicator

A service organisation based in Warmley is currently recruiting an Administrator for a 9-12-month period with the opportunity to go permanent after this.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career in this field, working for a well-known Bristol company.

Duties will include:

• Operate the switchboard
• Update CRM records
• Taking customer payments over the phone
• Receptionist duties
• Maintain a high level of customer service at all times
• Check email inboxes
• Take bookings for new sale enquiries

Previous experience of working in an office is essential.  The successful candidate will be a strong communicator both over the phone and face to face.

A manufacturing organisation based in Warmley is currently recruiting an Administration Team Leader to join their team.

This is a newly created role due to organisational growth and is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Mentoring and managing a small team
• Reporting on stock levels
• Assisting the Operations Manager with logistical queries
• Analysing spreadsheets
• Setting up new customers on the system
• Managing customer issues
• Looking at ways to improve efficiencies within the department

Previous experience of working within a senior administrative role is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a strong communicator both over the phone and face to face.

A distribution organisation based in Stonehouse is currently recruiting a Finance Assistant to join their team.

Working for a business that is very well-established within its industry, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• General ledger account reconciliations
• Processing pre-payments and accruals
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Calculating rebates
• Processing supplier payments
• Check, match and process invoices
• Query resolution

Previous experience of working in an accounts department is essential.  The successful candidate must also be comfortable using excel and dealing with people face to face and over the telephone.

A retail organisation based in Bath is currently recruiting an Operational Administrator to join their team.

Working for modern, innovative business, this s an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Analysing orders to ensure information is accurate and achievable
• Maintain web portals
• Maintain trade account information on CRM
• New account set up
• Deal with customer queries
• Investigate missing goods for deliveries
• Raise credit notes and process invoices

Previous office experience is essential.  The successful candidate will ideally have used a CRM system before and must be comfortable using excel and dealing with people over the telephone.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Finance Assistant to join their team.

Working for a company specialising in project management that has an excellent reputation within its field, this is a great opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Payment runs
• VAT returns
• Cashflow analysis
• Purchase ledger
• Sales ledger
• Bank reconciliations
• Other ad hoc accounting tasks related to specific projects

The successful candidate must also be comfortable using excel and dealing with people face to face and over the telephone.  Experience of working in an office and being able to demonstrate strong numerical skills is also essential.

A service organisation based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Payroll Administrator to join their team.

Working for a well-established organisation, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Processing monthly salaries and hourly wages
• Issuing P46’s and P46’s when required
• Calculating SSP and SMP
• Payroll reconciliations
• Assisting with Year End
• Dealing with payroll queries

Previous experience of payroll is essential.  The successful candidate must also be confident dealing with people over the phone and face to face.

A retail organisation based in Bath is currently recruiting a Finance Business Partner to join their team.

This is a newly created role to work directly alongside the FD and is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Preparation of budgets, forecasts, strategic plans and financial modelling
• Cash flow forecasting, reporting on variances and providing suggestions for ways of improvements
• FX and hedging analysis
• Provide financial analysis on activities, plans, targets and business drivers
• Working closely with supply chain to report and forecast monthly stock levels
• Suggesting ways to improve economic and productive efficiencies
• Variance analysis and KPI calculations
• Ad hoc project accounting and financial modelling
• Assisting with month end duties

Previous experience of working within a commercially-orientated finance role is essential.  The successful candidate must also have strong excel/modelling skills and ideally be ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting an Administrator to join their team.

Working for part of a global business that is experiencing year on year growth, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Deal with contractor queries, this could be on-boarding new starters, contractual related, compliance checks, payment dates and replying to them in a timely manner
• Seeking the information needed from the relevant department to resolve the query
• Responsible for making sure certain documents from contractors have been received
• Liaising with contractors and recruitment businesses on a day to day basis to make sure everything is running accordingly
• Assist with ensuring contractors take home pay is maximised by legitimately claiming tax-reducing business expenses against their earnings

The successful candidate with have previous experience of working within an office and posses very good customer service and communication skills.

A service organisation based in Trowbridge is currently recruiting an Accounts Payable Manager to join their team.

Working for an environmentally friendly, ethics-first organisation, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Overseeing and mentoring a team
• Process improvements and reengineering
• Mont end analysis, working closely with the management accounts team
• Ensure the P2P strategy and policy is effective and complied with
• Develop effective internal and external relationships to allow for optimum P2P management
• Set and achieve department KPI targets
• Manage the provision of reports
• Address and resolve instances of non-compliance

Previous experience of working within a similar role is essential.  The successful candidate must also be able to demonstrate strong commercial awareness and analytical skills.

A service organisation in Warmley is currently recruiting an Administrator to join their team.

Working for a well-recognised and highly reputable business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Manage and monitor the overall success of customer care jobs
• Log details onto CRM system
• Arrange follow up engineer appointments
• Check previous days appointments for any outstanding work
• Check end of month valuations
• Collate and analyse timesheets
• Process new build costing onto monthly spreadsheet for finance team
• Ensure any documentation being claimed is actually received

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and customer service skills.  Experience of using Microsoft Office and a CRM system is preferable.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Trainee Payroll Administrator to join their team.

Working for a company that encourages professional growth and development and will also offer AAT study support, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Answer and resolve customer payroll enquiries over the phone or email ensuring a high level of customer service is delivered at all times
• Accurate administration of timesheets and payrolls
• Respond to and resolve payroll queries
• Assisting with setting up new contracts
• Assisting with closing of accounts

Previous experience of working within an office environment is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a confident communicator and be proficient on Excel.

An accountancy practice based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Senior Accountant to join their team on a part time basis, approximately 25 hours per week but could be flexible.

Working for a well-established, independent practice, this role has been created due to organisational growth and will report directly to the owner.

Duties will include:

• Accounts preparation
• Mentor and oversee junior staff members work
• Tax calculations
• Deal with client queries
• VAT returns
• Management accounts for small companies

Previous experience of working in a practice is essential.

An accountancy practice based in Portishead is currently recruiting a Semi-Senior Accountant to join their team

Working for a well-established, independent practice, this role has been created due to organisational growth and is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this sector.

Duties will include:

• Accounts preparation
• Tax calculations
• Deal with client queries
• VAT returns
• Management accounts for small companies

Previous experience of working in a practice is essential

A financial services organisation based in Bath is currently recruiting a Financial Analyst to join their team.

This role will play a key part in assisting with the businesses continued growth and is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Perform a variety of advanced financial analyses to determine the present and forecasted financial position of the company
• Use financial modelling to simulate financial scenarios and outcomes for the company
• Assisting with the preparation of the monthly management accounts and other ad hoc accounting tasks
• Assisting with the audit process
• Budgeting and reforecasting

The successful candidate will hold a professional accountancy qualification and had previous experience of working within an analytical role.

A service organisation based in Gloucester is currently recruiting a Management Accountant to join their team.

This is a newly created role working for an innovative business that is at the forefront of its industry.

Duties will include:
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Variance analysis
• KPI reporting
• Month end reporting
• Profit & loss statements
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Analysis and reporting of financial statements and management accounts

The successful candidate will have previous experience of producing management accounts. Strong communication and IT skills are also essential.

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Contract Administrator to join their team.

Working for part of a global business that is experiencing year on year growth, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Deal with contractor queries, this could be on-boarding new starters, contractual related, compliance checks, payment dates and replying to them in a timely manner
• Seeking the information needed from the relevant department to resolve the query
• Responsible for making sure certain documents from contractors have been received
• Liaising with contractors and recruitment businesses on a day to day basis to make sure everything is running accordingly
• Assist with ensuring contractors take home pay is maximised by legitimately claiming tax-reducing business expenses against their earnings

The successful candidate with have previous experience of working within an office and possess very good customer service and communication skills.

A legal firm based in Cheltenham is currently recruiting a Finance Manager to join their team.

Working for an award-winning company that has an excellent reputation within its industry, this is a great opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Prepare financial reports for Directors
• Bookkeeping
• Assist the external accountant
• Monitor overheads
• Credit control
• Performance reports for fee earners
• Ensure necessary compliance completed in line with Law Society and SRA account rules

Previous experience of working in an accounts department is essential.  The successful candidate must be comfortable working in an autonomous role and be able to demonstrate working within deadlines.

A service organisation based in Dursley is currently recruiting a Financial Controller to join their team.

Working for a growing SME, this role offers the opportunity to progress onto Finance Director and become a key person in the senior leadership team.

Duties will include:

• Help the Managing Director make strategic decisions based on financial performance
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Create and develop KPI’s and financial models
• Review internal processes within the team, aim to increase efficiencies
• Manage and mentor a small team
• Liaise with other departments to understand how the finance team can support them
• Reconcile the balance sheet
• Assist the auditors at year end

Previous experience of working within a similar role is essential.  The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate keen commercial awareness and enjoy interacting with other parts of the business.

A service organisation based in central Bristol (with the option of working from home), is currently recruiting a Finance Manager to join their team.

This is a newly created role working for a growing and ambitious business and is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in combining their accountancy background with project managing due diligence and compliance processes.

Duties will include:

• Assisting clients set up their operations around the globe
• Maintain a library of metrics reports and internal support documentation
• Establish legal entities and tax registrations
• Setting up of Limited Companies, branch offices and representative offices
• Establish what information is required for each part of the project plan
• Liaise with multiple resources in a wide range of countries
• Prepare client facing correspondence

International business exposure is desirable.  The successful candidate will ideally have experience of working within compliance/project management or an outsourcing environment

A service organisation based in central Bristol is currently recruiting a Senior Payroll Administrator to join their team.

Working for an international company and dealing with some of the firm’s largest clients, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Advising overseas clients on UK payroll regulations
• Creating of easy to use guides on UK payroll/tax system
• Group payroll calculations
• Monthly and weekly timesheet processing
• Creation of welcome packs for all new temps
• Pension autoenrollment
• Holiday accruals and other statutory calculations

Previous payroll experience is essential.  The successful candidate must also be a strong communicator both over the phone and face to face.

A manufacturing organisation based in Stonehouse is currently recruiting a Group Accountant to join their team.

Working for an expanding company, currently with 5 legal entities, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Group financial monthly reporting for the board and budget holders
• Budgeting and forecasting and the creation new models
• Assist Finance Manager with month end accounting
• WIP and stock accounting
• Year end reporting
• Statutory consolidation and assisting the auditors
• Identify and implement business controls and systems improvements

The successful candidate will have strong excel model building experience and be comfortable working within both management and financial accounting procedures.

A manufacturing organisation based in Warmley is currently recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their team.

Working for a well-established, global brand, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Processing and coding of invoices
• Query resolution
• Post journals
• Excel spreadsheet analysis

Previous purchase ledger experience is essential.  The successful candidate will also ideally have used SAP.

A service organisation in Warmley is currently recruiting an Aftersales Administrator to join their team.

Working for a well-recognised and highly reputable business, this is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to further their career within this field.

Duties will include:

• Manage and monitor the overall success of customer care jobs
• Log details onto CRM system
• Arrange follow up engineer appointments
• Check previous days appointments for any outstanding work
• Check end of month valuations
• Collate and analyse timesheets
• Process new build costing onto monthly spreadsheet for finance team
• Ensure any documentation being claimed is actually received

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and customer service skills.  Experience of using Microsoft Office and a CRM system is also essential.