LOCATION: Office based at The Old Builder’s Yard, Cortworth Lane, Wentworth, S62 7SB
HOURS: 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday
About the role:
Hickton Group Ltd is a holding company comprising several individual businesses that have decades of collective experience working on a diverse portfolio of construction projects for clients across all regions of the UK.
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Finance Assistant & Credit Controller to join our busy finance department. This role offers an excellent opportunity to grow within a supportive and fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will support the accounts team in various essential tasks including, client invoicing, credit control, bank reconciliation, purchase ledger as well as ensuring general accuracy of financial records. The ideal candidate will have experience with transactional finance particularly sales ledger, invoicing, and credit control.
Desirable attributes
+ Excellent excel knowledge
+ Strong Financial awareness
+Experience of working to deadlines
+ Excellent organisational skills
+ Enthusiastic and driven to succeed
+ Excellent attention to detail
+ A multitasker
Roles and responsibilities
+ Working with various accounting packages to process sales and purchase invoices and month end adjustments.
+ Assisting in the preparation of monthly accounts.
+ Ensuring payments, postings and adjustments are accurate.
+ Working with spreadsheets, sales and purchase ledgers and journals.
+ Managing debt and chasing cash collections.
+ Bank Reconciliation
+ Liaising with third party providers, clients, and suppliers.
+ Monitoring daily communication and responding to queries.
This job description only contains the main duties relating to this post and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out, and there will be an expectation that the post holder will carry out other duties that reasonably fall within the general nature of the level of responsibility of the post. The responsibilities contained within this job description are subject to annual review and may need to be adjusted in line with service developments.
Why join our group
Hickton Group comprises of several businesses. Group structure continues our ambition to be a leading multi-disciplinary provider of quality inspection and consultancy services in the construction sector. Being part of the Group means that there is a coordinated approach to Commercial Business, Marketing, Resourcing, Finance, Business Support, Operations and Corporate Governance, to provide technical excellence and exceptional service to our clients. This provides greater opportunities to work for a larger Group of companies, giving you continuous growth in your own personal development plans and careers.
We employ people who embrace and deliver our core Group values: Quality, Client Focus, Honesty, Integrity, Competency, Teamwork, Development, Accountability and Exceptional Service.
If this sounds like a team that you would like to be part of, in return we will provide the following:
+ Competitive salary
+ Continuous personal development (CPD) opportunities
+ Health cover
+ Enhanced employer pension contributions
+ Holiday accrual scheme
+ Go 1 online training platform
+ A friendly and professional working environment with an ‘open door’ ethos
How to apply
Please send your CV and covering letter to hr@hicktongroup.co.uk.