Accounts Assistant job at Bathgate Full Time NEW

Accounts Assistant

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (negotiable days)

Location: Fitwise Office, Blackburn House, Seafield, West Lothian (mix of home and office working available)

Responsible to: Financial Controller

Salary: Around £28,000 FTE (dependent on experience)

At Fitwise we specialise in association and educational event management, and we have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join our team.

Working within a small finance team, this position will provide finance support to a range of clients and events. The candidate would be responsible for the daily and monthly finance tasks for their clients including daily banking, posting and reconciling purchases and sales ledgers and reconciling external systems to SAGE.

About you:

· Previous experience in an account’s environment (5+years)

· Experience of working with SAGE Line 50

· Strong MS Office experience, particularly excel skills

· Strong written and verbal communication skills

· A people person with good team working skills

· Pro-activity to identify and creatively solve problems

This can be a hybrid role with a combination of home / office working available for the right candidate.

Fitwise Management Ltd is an award winning, platinum investors in people organisation. Fitwise is also an employee-owned company, which means that you will have an opportunity to have a real stake and interest in the company.

Additional benefits include: Over time/time in lieu for any hours worked above the core contracted hours, and above minimum pension contribution.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented at Fitwise Management Ltd., including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQI+ people.

Application process: Please refer to the full job description on our website when submitting your application – https://fitwise.co.uk/careers. Suitable candidates will be invited for an initial interview via Teams. This will take no longer than 20 mins. Second-stage interviews will then take place face to face at the Fitwise offices in Seafield near Bathgate.

The office location is not well served by public transport (postcode EH47 7AQ). While the office is on a bus route, access can be tricky and we encourage candidates to take this into consideration. There is plenty of free parking available.

Pay: From £28,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Flexitime
• Free fitness classes
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bathgate EH47 7AQ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Accounts/Finance: 5 years (required)
• Sage 50 Accounting: 5 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person