Jobs

Ledgers Assistant

Organisation: The National Trust for Scotland

Salary: £23,500 pro rata

Location: Edinburgh

Purpose of the role

To assist with the accurate and timely processing of banking transactions, incoming and outgoing payments from/to debtors and creditors. Ledgers Assistants work primarily in either Sales, Purchase Ledger or Cashroom sections at the discretion of the Trust, but will be expected to work flexibly between the two to suit the demands of the Department.

Deliverables
Purchase Ledger:
 Ensure that invoices and credits are processed timeously and correctly and applying the Trust procedures to meet our obligations to suppliers.
 Prioritise workload to ensure deadlines met
 Reconcile records with supplier records to ensure consistency and accuracy.
 Assist with general office routines such as filing and reviewing reports to ensure the smooth operating of the section.

Sales Ledger:
 Ensure that incoming payments from debtors are processed against invoices issues, timeously and correctly and applying Trust procedures to pursue outstanding debts.
 Assist with the preparation of banking and reconciliation of cash.
 Assist with general office routines such as filing and reviewing reports to ensure the smooth operating of the section.

Cashroom:

• Download invoices and bank statements to create a daily banking sheet
• Record all incoming payments from customers and correctly allocate against customers’ accounts
• Reconcile all accounts as requested and ensure there is no unallocated cash at the end of the week or month
• Lodge cheque and cash payments and other banking transactions
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Monitor daily cashroom email and action these
• Direct Debit collection

The current duties of this post do require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out.

Application Deadline: Friday 24/06/2022