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Ashdown is not a normal company, and we are not aiming to become one. We do share positive atributes with many other growing UK businesses – we try to innovate and work in a smart and attentive manner – but even as we we increase in size, we are thoroughly committed to retaining our unique and dynamic approach.
We offer our employees a defined salary and commission structure that reflects effort, ability and performance - across every job within the Group.
• Above average basic salary
• Commission on every placement
• Extensive training
• Heavily subsidised Virgin Active membership
• A great working environment
• Defined career path leading to trainee management positions
• Other long-term opportunities across the business for the right people
The Ashdown Group have enjoyed very successful years as a specialist recruitment consultancy and as a result of considerable business growth into Accountancy, HR and Marketing recruitment we are hoping to expand further in 2012. Our company culture is based on friendliness and team effort where everybody enjoys and shares in our success.
We are headquartered in Kingston upon Thames on the edge of London. We will provide you with full training in customer relationship building, our recruitment procedure and account management. Our modern 4000 sq ft office is less than 10 minutes walk from Kingston station.
Assistant Accountant - 3 Month Contract
Recruiting Now
Responsible for all financial aspects of the Ashdown Group. Maintaining effective standards and systems of financial control, budgetary appraisal, management information and reporting.
You will be responsible for a number of shared tasks and will need to be able to work well within a team. The whole accounts department aims to cross train into each others roles to cover responsibilities when needed.
Key responsibilities will include:
• Reconciliation of accounts
• Purchase and sales ledger
• Managing credit control process
• Completing year end procedures before being submitted to the auditors
• VAT returns and reconciliation
• Writing journals and troubleshooting financial queries within the business
• Management Information for business stakeholders
Skills:
• Sage Line 50
• Good Microsoft Office skills
• Excellent Excel
Profile:
• Previous accounts experience in a similar role
• Experienced, partly qualified CIMA/ACCA
• Educated to degree level standard, ideally an accountancy degree.
• Proactive approach to accountancy
• High degree of personal energy and drive
• Imaginative, ideas person, constantly striving to improve processes and delivery of the financial function to the business.
Send your CV and a covering letter to: workforus@ashdowngroup.com.
Account Manager
Ongoing Recruitment
No Cold Calling - Full Recruitment Training Given - Our high achievers earn just over £60,000 a year, managing and developing their business relationships. Our recruitment consultants are given vacancies to work on - they don't cold call.
Starting basic salary £20,000 - £25,000 depending on experience, rising to £27,500 and finally £30,000 on completion of defined targets. A number of our consultants are on a basic salary of £30,000.
We are registering more vacancies than our existing teams can resource - give up cold calling for good and concentrate on just making placements. We will provide you with IT, HR, Marketing and Accountancy vacancies to work on. You will benefit from our in-house database of over 570,000 CV's and utilise the very latest CV searching technology.
A key differentiator between the Ashdown Group and some of our competitors is our payment of commission on every placement an Account Manager makes - even if targets aren't achieved. Our team has an average of 5 years service, a statistic that supports employee satisfaction at Ashdown.
Structured increases in basic salary are available if people hit targets over a 6 and 12 month period. We have started to interview top performers with a view to increasing the size of our existing high performance team in 2012.
Please apply for this position if you are already successful and would like to join a driven and talented team, many of whom are achieving over 150% of target. Full and comprehensive training in the Ashdown Group recruitment process is offered.
The Ashdown Group provides IT, HR, Marketing and Accountancy recruitment services to companies of all sizes in all parts of the UK. With an 12 year trading history, we have been contacted by 100 household name companies and over 2000 small and medium sized businesses. We give our Account Managers vacancies to fill leaving them with a full working week to manage the recruitment process from start to finish. Account Managers are tasked with attending client meetings, building client rapport, selecting candidates, arranging interviews and presenting offers. Long-term success is achieved by building a strong relationship with customers going forward. First impressions are lasting and the real value in any client relationship is further business opportunity. Networking within the businesses you are assigned is critical.
Our top performers are articulate, exceptional at asking the right questions, good at listening, able to cope with pressure, self managing, highly organized, persuasive, resilient, completely honest, objective, driven and motivated. If you genuinely think you possess all the qualities displayed within the existing Ashdown team, you are likely to have a long and happy career with our company. We are only interested in hearing from people who deliver a high level of customer service. Our policy is to be honest and objective with our clients and our candidates. Our agency relies on an entirely ethical approach to recruitment. If you would like the opportunity to bring your successful sales record to a business that will financially reward you and give you unlimited scope for responsibility within your client portfolio - then please submit your CV and career history to us in absolute confidence. Our typical day is 8.15 to 6. A healthy work-life-balance is important to us.
• This is a customer service – not sales - role
• We never cold-call for new business - all of our customers have approached us
So follow their lead and approach us. Send your CV and a covering letter to: workforus@ashdowngroup.com.
Account Executive
Recruiting in February 2012
