Job Description

The Role

The Accounts Assistant will support the Finance Manager with the day-to-day running of the Finance function - mostly focusing on the accounts payable and transactional duties, with scope to assist and take on some month-end.

Key Duties:

• Day to day management of the AP functions
• Reviewing, coding and processing all purchase invoices and credits
• Matching and entry of invoices to purchase orders
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all suppliers
• Reconciliation of supplier statements and keep all suppliers accounts up to date
• Investigating queries as and when required
• Processing of payments on online banking
• Raising purchase orders, raise and issue sales invoices
• Reconciling and agreeing balances with inter-companies
• Verify new supplier bank details
• Improving and implementing of new and existing Purchase Ledger processes and function
• Manage Direct Debits
• Setting up new suppliers on SAGE
• Processing Cash receipts
• Chasing up outstanding debts - Credit Control
• Reconciliation and process company credit cards and reconciliation
• VAT returns
• Managing Fixed Assets, write offs, new additions and depreciation

Opportunity to advance to:

• Cash flow management and cash forecasting
• Assisting with Internal and external Audits
• Journals and Reconciliation of prepayments and accruals
• Managing Balance Sheet Recs, reconcile creditors/debtors inventory and similar
• Assisting the finance manager with varied tasks associated with managing finance
• Analysis and provide data to the Finance manager as required
• Support Finance Manager with month end and quarterly reporting

Benefits

• £23,000 - £27,000
• Study support
• Working from home options
• Flexible working options
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension Scheme

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities