Accounts Assistant

at  The Maritime Hotel

The 4* Maritime Hotel in Bantry, West Cork has a vacancy for a full time Accounts Assistant (maternity leave contract). Based at the Maritime hotel this role will work closely with the Maritime management team and with Finance department of Gleneagle Group.
This role may suit someone looking to return to the workforce or looking to gain further experience in this field.
While this role is ideally five days per week, Monday - Friday we can open to discussion with the successful candidate on working four days per week usually and five days during month end.

Main responsibilities:

• Accounts receivable: Posting customer sales invoices onto system, sending out monthly statements and following up on overdue invoices, resolving queries relating to customer accounts, managing relationships with customers
• Accounts payable: processing invoices, managing and overseeing purchase order system including setting up suppliers, raising PO’s, managing relationships with suppliers, completion of month end processing and reports, overseeing weekly and monthly payment runs, organising and processing regular stocktakes.
• Daily Cash Balancing
• Other duties: Assist in monthly mgmt. accounts preparation, end of year audit files and procedures, point of contact for AR and AP queries.

Experience and qualifications:

• Previous experience in a similar role is essential
• Accounting Technician qualification preferred
• Experience in a hotel environment particularly front office is advantageous
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Self-starter with ability to work on own initiative, but equally comfortable working as part of a team
• Excellent communicator both written and verbal

• Accounts receivable: Posting customer sales invoices onto system, sending out monthly statements and following up on overdue invoices, resolving queries relating to customer accounts, managing relationships with customers
• Accounts payable: processing invoices, managing and overseeing purchase order system including setting up suppliers, raising PO’s, managing relationships with suppliers, completion of month end processing and reports, overseeing weekly and monthly payment runs, organising and processing regular stocktakes.
• Daily Cash Balancing
• Other duties: Assist in monthly mgmt. accounts preparation, end of year audit files and procedures, point of contact for AR and AP queries