Finance Assistant

We are looking to recruit an experience Finance Assistant to work 12-15 hours per week in the West of Newcastle This is a new role and still in development and currently involves working as part of a small team. You would be responsible for providing administrative assistance directly to the Ledger Clerk Duties and responsibilities to include but not limited to:- Purchase Ledger duties * Collection of incoming delivery notes from factory office and matching to purchase orders * Checking, collation, matching and filing of the above documents * Follow up data entry to in-house stock and order database * Collect incoming purchase invoices from mail / email, match, chase suppliers for missing invoices & delivery notes, save and distribute to the Ledger Clerk for coding * Sorting of invoices alphabetically, numerically for passing to Finance Manager Sales Ledger duties * Printing of sales invoice control totals from database and check for missing invoices * File office copies and copies for the Finance Manager * Printing remittances and allocating copy to sales invoice * Sales Ledger filing and general administration * Email out customer statements monthly The person * Must have a similar background * Be educated to GCSE level 5-9 including both English and Maths (or equivalent) * Excel and Word experience * Have Sales and Purchase ledger experience * Ability to usete financial spreadsheets in MS Excel * Be positive, proactive and dynamic - look for solutions to problems and ways to improve * Remain flexible in an ever-changing environment * Have excellent attention to detail