Job Description

This is a hands-on operational role, working as part of a small yet busy team, together with the Director of Finance, who also works part time, you will provide a finance function to the 4 companies, who each have separate ledgers. Based on Sage 50 and Xero. All the ledgers are paperless. Your bookkeeping responsibilities includes the following duties:

• Full sales ledger function to include: setting up customer accounts, raising customer invoices cash allocation. Reconciliation of Sales ledger
• Full purchase ledger function: Coding & posting invoices, raising payments via on line banking, allocating payments. Reconciliation of purchase ledger control account.
• Credit control. Chasing for non-payment and maintaining records of the progress of collections.
• Expenses. Using Xero’s expenses module, managing employee expense claims e.g. checking claims’, receipts and coding. Raise payments via on line banking.
• Reconciliations; Various spreadsheets to reconcile the balance on general ledger accounts.
• Membership numbers reconciliations.
• Ad hoc Journal entry posting as required
• Events expenditure reconciliations.
• Helping the Director of Finance with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience of using SAGE 50 (essential)
• Experience of using Xero
• At least 5+ years proven book keeping experience.
• Basic understanding of VAT, what can be reclaimed etc
• Basic spreadsheet usage and reconciliations
• Online banking
• IT literacy and numeracy skills – including use of Microsoft Office
• Attention to detail
• Organized, methodical
• Task based
• Good organizational and planning skills – Small company environment
• Hands on practical team player.
• Happy to work on their own and using their own initiative.
• Demonstrate high integrity and ability to build trust
• Methodical
• Eye for detail
• Working at pace, multi-tasking and organizational skills to manage different financial duties, including the ability to priorities tasks in order to meet deadlines.