Description:
we have a wonderful role for an Assistant Accountant looking to continue with their qualifications. You will be working in a busy & fast paced environment. This role will be working onsite 4 days a week with one homeworking day. We offer a great, friendly team working environment with trips for all staff twice a year, free parking and great bonuses which are paid both on company and individual performance.
The skills and experience required to be our new Assistant Accountant
- Must be adaptable and able to grasp new systems quickly and embrace change
- Strong reporting skills: Excel (lookups, pivots, IF formulas, tables)
- Strong time management, planning and organisational skills, attention to detail
- Self-motivation and a willingness to continuously learn and change
- Experience in AP & AR
- Excellent communication skills are required and being an approachable Team player is key
- Must be passionate about Finance
The core duties of an Assistant Accountant
- Daily bank postings and bank reconciliations
- Monthly Sales Reconciliation
- Credit Card Transactions
- Coding and approving invoices on system
- Posting expenses
- Assisting the Management Accountant with Accruals and prepayments
- Providing cover for the Contracts Accountant
- Core AP and AR functions
- Experience in taking part in the annual Audit process
- Raising sales invoices, credit notes, client communication management regarding AR, posting sales transactions on Vincere and Sage Intact
- Obtaining daily exchange rates and updating records in Excel and Sage Intact.
- Processing and posting supplier invoices in Sage Intact.
- Running and reviewing aged creditors reports, suggesting payment runs for approval
- Setting up payment runs on the bank bi-weekly
- Processing HMRC P30 and P32 payments and manual non-GBP currency supplier payments
- Updating cash flow post payment runs