Key Account Assistant

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Accounts Assistant looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

Brief description

Our Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) are looking for an experienced account professional to join their accounts team. The successful candidate will ideally have 3 years+ experience in all aspects of the accounts role as this is a varied fulfilling role.

Purpose of the role

The role will be the primary point of contact for purchase ledger and credit control for CTS (part of SFS). You will have responsible for the entire end to end process.

Duties and responsibilities

• Matching, batching and coding of a high volume and value of invoices
• Ensure supplier statement reconciliations are being performed and ensure integrity of profit and loss balances
• Resolving all invoice / order queries within a tight time frame
• Responsible for invoicing and collection of all CTS revenue
• Resolving all invoice / order queries for customers within a tight time frame
• Daily cashbook
• Assisting with month end accounting
• Preparation of payments
• Other general duties and requested

Skills

Essential Skills

• Proven purchase ledger experience
• Proven credit control experience
• Confident with excel to intermediate level
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Well organised and dependable
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve deadlines
• Presentable and able to conduct themselves in a professional manner

Desirable Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team but also on their own initiative
• Good knowledge of double entry book keeping
• Experience of windows based accounting packages, preferably Access Dimensions

Qualifications and experience

Previous experience in a similar role is also preferred.

Working hours

40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm (one hour for lunch) - Onsite role.

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave

• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.