Job Description

Responsibilities

• Sales Ledger
  • Entering customer contracts/sales orders into the finance system
  • Generating customer invoices and credit notes
  • Credit control via email and telephone
  • Dealing with queries from customers and internal customer facing team
• Purchase Ledger
  • Logging and administering the approval of supplier invoices
  • Recording supplier invoices on the finance system
  • Generating supplier payment lists
  • Using online banking to create supplier payments
  • Dealing with queries from suppliers and internal staff
  • Assistance with the review and recording of corporate card expenditure
• Payroll
  • Assistance in the compiling of payroll information to external payroll provider
  • Record payroll and associated costs in the finance system
  • Create payroll and related payments in online banking
• Cash Management
  • Daily bank reconciliations
  • Assistance with the production of rolling cash forecasting
• Assistance with monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Assistance with the calculation of accruals and prepayments
• Assistance with regular and ad-hoc operational financial reporting and analysis
• Assistance with the preparation of information for statutory returns such as vat returns
• Assistance with ad-hoc finance administrative tasks in relation to the implementation of new finance systems.

Profile

• Ideally have or be working towards an accounting qualification, such as AAT or equivalent
• Experience performing the tasks listed under the responsibilities section
• Good user of finance systems
• Ability to work remotely and comfortable using various communication technologies, e.g. instant messaging, video calling, email and telephone.
• Background of working for a growing SME (ideally in the technology/SAAS industry)
• Background working in a multi-entity environment (desirable)
• Detail oriented
• Strong Microsoft office skills, particularly Excel

Job Offer

Assistant Accountant - Fixed term for 6 months
Hours: Office hours, 37.5 hours per week
Office based in Edinburgh but working from home for the foreseeable future

£24,000 - £28,000pa

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities