The Accounts Assistant will be responsible for supporting the finance team in the daily operations of the firm. This role involves processing and maintaining accurate financial records, assisting in the preparation of internal and external reports, supporting all departments for invoicing, and providing advice.
Key Responsibilities
- Sales Ledger Management: Setting up client accounts, recording transactions, and balancing the ledger, with monthly reconciliation and discrepancy reporting.
- Client Reporting & Data Management: Preparing and reconciling client reports, managing large data sets, and investigating discrepancies across systems.
- Invoicing & Credit Notes: Issuing accurate electronic invoices, reconciling billing systems, and managing credit notes in collaboration with credit control
- Accounting Queries: Addressing internal and external queries on invoicing and reporting, advising on billing best practices.
- Administrative Support: Managing emails, distributing tasks within the finance team, and assisting with document management and year-end processes.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
We are looking for a highly motivated, detail-oriented individual who has an aptitude for working with a variety of complex procedures, and to tight deadlines. The ideal candidate would have:
- Great attention to detail and focus on accuracy
- An analytical approach – be able to work through and solve problems independently
- Strong communication skills – be able to adapt the communication style, as appropriate
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Confidence in using Excel and other MS Office applications
- Effective time management - consistently meeting deadlines
- Excellent organisational skills – prioritising tasks appropriately
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Willingness to learn new skills.
Benefits
We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees you wont feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel, we understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.
We also offer:
- 34 hour working week
- Agile working
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Voucher on your birthday and Christmas
- Annual salary review
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- Social outings - summer party, Christmas party and more
- Charity events
About Appleyard Lees
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm with approximately seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators across offices in Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, and Cambridge.
We provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) services covering patents, trade marks, designs and copyright in the UK, Europe and worldwide. We use our technical and legal skills, and many years of experience, to identify and protect IP assets and to uncover and eliminate the risks posed by other people’s IP rights.
Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.
Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies, and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals, and heavy industry, higher education, and hospitality, leisure, and tourism.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm’s values . Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.
We welcome the unique contribution that a diverse workforce will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
