Accounts Assistant Sales Ledger
Westhill, Aberdeenshire
Join us on our ambitious journey
We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at Westhill, Aberdeenshire with hybrid working  or part time hours available.
You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.
Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.
In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.
Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.
We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.
Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.
And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.
The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.
We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.
We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.
We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at our offices in Westhill, Aberdeenshire with hybrid working available.
You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
A bit about the role
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Accounts Assistant will be part of the finance team and ensure efficient running of the Sales Ledger function at all times. The Accounts Assistant will also be expected to assist with other financial tasks as and when required. Your primary role is responsible for ensuring efficient and accurate processing of valuations within the Sales Ledger function. You’ll ensure Payment Certificates agree with our ERP system, IFS, while ensuring any differences are reconciled and understood with action taken to resolve.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring all customer payments are coded correctly into IFS and prepare and maintain a VAT analysis for each contract to ensure VAT processing is accurate.
You’ll handle customer queries and ensure that issues are resolved in a timely manner. You’ll work alongside the commercial team, ensuring that all customer payment terms are met.
You’ll learn about the Purchase Ledger so you can help other team members as required for the smooth running of the department.
Your skills
We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.
If you have a passion for success, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.
You’ll be competent in the use of Microsoft packages and capable of working to tight deadlines. While working to meet your deadlines, you’re comfortable in prioritising workstreams, working with a team to deliver results.
You should have basic accounting experience.
Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch. If this sounds like the right step for your career, please click here to apply and find out more.
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