Job Description

Reporting to the Management Accountant, this role will provide administrative and financial support to WPO’s clients to ensure financial transactions are recorded and processed correctly.

The role will assist with the accounting on a number of entities; processing sales and purchase ledgers, managing bank accounts, general ledger posting and liaising with suppliers and third parties. For the right candidate there will be opportunities to be involved in other areas of finance as the role develops.

The person

To apply, you must have at least 2 years’ experience as a Senior Finance Assistant or similar role, specifically with experience of processing financial data. With excellent attention to detail you will also have strong IT skills, particularly Excel.

Key tasks/ duties

• Process purchase invoices ensuring internal/external sign-off
• Upload payments to electronic banking systems for payment
• Process bank postings
• File, document and process of incoming and outgoing communications
• Ensure that all transactional/source documentation has been properly captured, recorded, coded and processed in accordance with WPO procedures and best practice
• Preparation of periodic VAT returns
• Sales invoicing
• Assistance on a variety of tasks where required (e.g. monthly management accounts, annual budgets, preparation of period end journals)

Contract length: 12 months

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• finance : 2 years (Required)

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Several years’ all-round bookkeeping/accounting essential, preferably with an SME · Experience of working in a busy, deadline driven environment and able to manage own workload/multiple tasks whilst being adaptable to changing priorities · Great attention to detail · Good working knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) · Familiar with online accounting systems, preferably QuickBooks, Sage and/or Xero.