Accounts Assistant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Responsible for bookkeeping of all projects and some subsidiary companies up to Trial Balance
- Sales invoicing (manual invoicing and/or using sage), within strict deadlines.
- Prepare payment instructions to banks.
- Prepare/Review payment withdrawal notices .
- Accounts receivable and credit control.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Input month and quarter end journals with support from management accountants, some are complicated and materially significant for the financial statements.
- Quarterly VAT returns
- Administration and management of SAGE 200.
- Liaising with other departments (e.g., Technical, Commercial and Admin) and Accountants to ensure accurate accounting treatment and recording.
- Support audit process.
- Support with Senior Accounting Officer certificate submission.
- Various company secretarial works as required by Companies Act.
- Assist other accountants in various reporting obligations.
- General:
- Identifying and implementing improvements, including fuller use of systems, to drive efficiency and control, assist in improving, documentation and monitoring of internal controls.
- Understand internal control requirements, maintain internal control documents and manage accounting work in accordance with them.
- Deal with ad hoc work as it arises.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bookkeeping
- Finance
- VAT
- General Accounts
- Good bookkeeping and general accounting knowledge and proven ability to understand and apply it in practice
- Understanding the key principles of VAT
- Ability to recognize any issues and communicate effectively to more senior level staff
- Pro-active, self-motivated and highly organized
- Excellent interpersonal skills; Strong team player
- Ability to communicate effectively and build cooperative relationships with both internal and external contacts at all levels is critical
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn and develop accounting skills
- Able to (or desire to learn to) progress to more complicated work.
- Ability to work under pressure and cope with tight and fixed reporting deadlines
- Ability to run multitask whilst being able to priorities to meet multiple deadlines
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Part qualified accounting professional or practical accounting experience /commitment to formal accounting qualification.
- Knowledge of SAGE200 accounting system (advantageous to have)
- Good understanding of general internal controls preferred, not essential
- This is a multicultural, multi-disciplined team of professionals, thus an ability to articulate views clearly and concisely is highly desirable
Reference no: 106831