Accounts Assistant

Temporary Accounts Assistant Nottingham Office based - 1 day work from home after successful training period Eaton Syalon are working with our Nottingham based client to recruit a temporary Accounts Assistant into their…

Remote Finance
Pay rate £14.87 – £15.89/hour
Job type Temporary
Posted 10 October 2026

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Temporary Accounts Assistant
Nottingham
Office based - 1 day work from home after successful training period

Eaton Syalon are working with our Nottingham based client to recruit a temporary Accounts Assistant into their Finance team. The role will be initially a 3-month temporary role, reporting into the Head Of Finance. You'll support with a mix of transactional accounts work, whilst support the Head of Finance with Month-end tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

- Assist with the month end accounts preparation
- Prepare and post monthly accruals, prepayments, correction and other month end journals as required
- Ownership of the Accounts Payable inbox
- Ownership of supplier queries and providing timely internal and external responses
- Ownership of maintaining the Accounts Payable tracker
- Raise Purchase Orders as required
- Support with producing monthly balance sheet account reconciliations
- Support any upcoming transitions into new systems and tools
- Support with raising sales invoices with the Revenue Accountant
- Support with maintaining customer contracts in the Finance system
- Support with bank reconciliations and postings
- Assist with Accounts Receivable aged debt collection
- Assist with cashflow reporting
- Support VAT return preparation

Person Profile:

- Will have varied transactional / month-end experience, most likely having worked as an Accounts Assistant / Assistant Accountant or Assistant Management Accountant most recently
- Strong Excel skills
- SAP experience preferred but isn't essential
- The ability to hold conversations with all levels of business
- Must be able to commit to the initial 3-month temporary period
- Must be available to start week commencing 2nd November

If you have the above experience and are looking for a temporary role to start at the beginning of November, please get in touch to discuss the role further

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