£34000 - £42000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Preparation of internal charge journals, such as meal analysis.
- Month end reconciliations of balance sheet items.
- Review payment runs prepared by accounts assistants.
- Review of posting entries within the accounting software.
- Review of bank reconciliations.
- Assistance with the accounts payable function
- Provide cover for the purchase ledger including coding and inputting data
- Perform the purchase ledger payment runs
- Perform and administer the monthly direct debit collections
- Check sales invoices produced by accounts assistants.
- Preparation of VAT returns for review
- Review of the payrolls before final approval.
- Liaison with various departments to ensure that information is provided on a timely basis to the payroll provider.
- Management of payroll payments to various agencies, such as HMRC and pension providers.
- Provide administration for the College pension schemes.
- Preparing or supporting the process of preparing information for external agencies, including HMRC and other regulatory bodies.
- Provide cover to other accounts team staff when required.
- Ensure maintenance of finance processes but be willing to challenge them and assist in devising new processes where necessary.
- Assist with other financial administration tasks including other ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified with an accounting qualification in either ACA or CIMA.
- At least two years' experience in an accounting environment with proven management accounting, budgeting and strong analytical skills.
- Experience of preparing VAT returns
- Strong accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a small team
- Excellent people skills with the ability to win trust and work collaboratively and empathetically with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate effectively on finance matters to non-financial staff, academic and non-academic, including senior management and administrative staff at all levels.
- High levels of personal effectiveness, particularly co-ordination, organization and the ability to focus on achieving deadlines and ensuring that project plans can be met.
- Proven ability to manage and priorities own workload, including managing multiple, competing activities with tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable problem solving skills combined with ability to generate practical and effective solutions.
- Excellent IT skills, in particular strong Excel skills and a good understanding of financial IT systems.
- High level of integrity and the ability to deal reliably with confidential information
- A flexible "can do" approach and a strong commitment to customer service.
- Ability to keep calm under pressure
- Experience of Business Central finance systems
- Previous experience of working in a small finance team
- Knowledge of charity fund accounting
- Knowledge of partial exemption and VAT treatment of different revenue streams
Reference no: 109529