Finance / Accounts Assistant

Dark Horse is a renowned digital marketing agency based in the UK, specialising in PPC, SEO and Paid Social. With a diverse clientele and a commitment to delivering exceptional results, we are looking to bring more finance functions in-house to improve the efficiency of our overall operations.

Are you an Accounts professional looking for your next challenge within a well-established, fast paced, growing company?

The role

As an Accounts Assistant, you will be a vital part of the team, reporting directly to the Group Operations Director, and liaising with multiple team members where needed.

• Managing and recording customer and supplier invoices, overseeing the whole process of raising, sending and receiving customer and supplier invoices.
• Preparing a weekly payment run list to ensure suppliers are paid on time.
• Logging transactions in a timely and accurate manner in the accounting system Sage Accounting.
• Undertaking bank reconciliations, ensuring all records are as up to date and accurate.
• Monitoring overdue payments and undertaking credit control activities in a proactive manner.
• Fielding and answering internal and external queries relating to invoices, payments and everything in between.
• Supporting the Group Operations Director with general administrative and reporting and month-end tasks.

What’s on offer

We think we’ve built a great place to work, where every individual feels rewarded for the effort, they put in. Enjoy this along with:

• Hybrid working, with two days a week in the office
• Flexitime
• Birthday off, obvs
• Leafy Altrincham location
• Mental Wellbeing BUPA programme
• Dark Horse will carbon offset your role with The Dark Forest (green is good)
• Working in an amazing team – Learning from some fantastic people

The requirements

• A proactive individual who is confident handling multiple tasks
• Previous experience in a similar finance or accounts role (essential)
• Good experience and working knowledge of Sage Accounting (essential)
• A high level of attention to detail
• The ability to respond professionally to internal and external queries
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel