Accounts Assistant
Job title: Accounts Assistant
Reports to: Group Accounts Payable Manager
Location: Manchester Science Park
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
About Yourgene Health:
Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. Yourgene work in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.
Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health and precision medicine. Yourgene's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.
Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA Size Selection instruments, powered by Ranger® Technology, ideal for cell-free DNA applications in NIPT, oncology including liquid biopsy, long fragment recovery and gene synthesis applications.
Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers an NIPT testing service in the Manchester laboratory.
Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US and Canada.
Our Culture:
Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have plenty of social and well-being initiatives run by our Nova Social & Charity Huddle that keep our sense of community alive and allow us to be part of charity fundraisers. At Yourgene, we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.
About the role:
We are looking to recruit a permanent, full-time Accounts Assistant based in Manchester. This is an accounts payable and credit control position that will assist with the operation and maintenance of creditor and debtor ledgers for the Novacyt Group. This role will involve liaising directly with suppliers, customers and staff across the Group so will require strong communication and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will be a natural problem solver, who shows initiative and will be flexible and proactive in their approach to the job.
Key areas of responsibility:
- Process invoices and resolve queries in a timely manner.
- Purchase order processing and 3-way matching.
- Invoice and receipt allocations.
- Carry out regular supplier reconciliations and maintain a clean creditors ledger.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers.
- Promptly respond to supplier enquiries and provide information as and when required.
- Report to the Group Accounts Payable Manager and provide feedback on the status of supplier accounts at regular supplier review meetings.
- Assist with the preparation of suggested payment lists for weekly payment runs.
- Assist with the preparation of monthly staff expense claims.
- Assist with the processing of monthly credit card reconciliation.
- Review GRNI position and work with the Purchasing team to resolve issues with purchase orders.
- Organise and maintain the Accounts department e-mail inboxes.
- Other ad hoc tasks as required to support the Group Accounts Payable Manager.
- Assist the Group Credit Controller to support the Group Credit Control function.
- Other ad hoc tasks to support the Group Credit Controller, including maintaining credit limits and performing credit checks.
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
- Part qualified preferred, AAT minimum
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in AP and AR similar roles
- Cashbook/bank reconciliation experience would be an advantage
- Good Excel and Microsoft Office 365 skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience of Sage 200 and NetSuite preferred
Closing Date:
Sunday 28th April, 2024
Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
- Department
- Finance
- Role
- Backfill
- Locations
- Manchester (Yourgene)
- Employment type
- Full-time
Manchester (Yourgene)
Some of the benefits we offer....
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Company Bonus Scheme
Based on performance against both Corporate and Personal objectives
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Group Pension Scheme
5% company contribution
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Holiday
25 days holiday (plus public holidays) with the option to Buy/Sell days each year
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Life Assurance
Giving you the peace of mind for your family should the worst happen
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Private Medical Insurance
Includes optical and dental cover
Supporting communities and wider society
At Novacyt, we believe in contributing to communities where we operate, and we have made donations to various charities and schools in the areas our offices are located.
Following the transformational financial performance of Novacyt in 2020, a charity steering committee was created made up from a number of key employees within the group tasked with identifying schools and charities in need of support particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021 a sum of £500,000 was dedicated to supporting a total of 25 schools and 50 charities throughout the year. We assisted projects looking to support critically ill children and adults, the homeless, old age pensioners and war veterans.
About Novacyt Group
At Novacyt Group, we pride ourselves on concentrating our expertise on specific market needs. Offering a comprehensive and developing portfolio of quality products, backed by proven supply and delivery services, to ensure the highest possible standards of customer service around the world. Our passion is for customer-centric solutions that advance the science behind diagnostics. This fuels our drive to deliver products that save lives and help in the fight against infectious disease.
We offer an increasing portfolio of in-vitro diagnostic tests, utilising molecular and protein detection technologies – supporting healthcare and disease prevention across the globe in the clinical and life science sectors. Deep strengths in product development, commercialisation, contract design, and manufacturing ensure quality products and robust supply.
Our Group has specialist experience and expertise throughout our business units: Primer Design, Novacyt UK, IT-IS International, and Yourgene Health UK – creating solutions for the diagnostics industry, supplying an extensive range of high-quality assays and reagents worldwide.
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