£22 - £24 Per hour
Bookkeeper
Full-time, Temporary
Job Description
- Oversee the procurement process
- Develop working relationships with Vendors proactively resolving accounts payable issues
- Match purchase invoices to fulfilled purchase orders
- Support the project management team in the provision of historic and forecast cost data by project
- Provide historic and forecast quarterly grant claims and ensure documentation available to upload to the portal and any other non-Innovate project as required
- Track and report on the financial progress of projects
- Liaise with the external accountants
- Manage the month end processes, including accurate coding of purchase invoices and expenses and clearing all unreconciled bank transactions
- To check and review quarterly VAT returns before submission
- Create sales invoices
- Manage bank payment runs
- Maintain credit card employee expenses
- Ensure timely submission of receipted employee expensed claims
- Interface to support Financial Reporting and monthly variance analysis as well as Financial Planning including annual budgets and 'bottom up' forecasts
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Proven bookkeeping experience
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable/receivable principles
- Proven ability to calculate, post and manage accounting figures and financial records
- High attention to detail
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel
- Experience of Xero Accounting Software is preferential but not essential.
- Excellent communication skills with non-financial colleagues
- Ability to analyses and think through a process and internal control
- To work in a flexible manner and be willing to undertake other duties as reasonably requested
- To keep own knowledge and skills up to date
Reference no: 110694