Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining the daily cash book
• Assisting with monthly bank reconciliations
• Reviewing and posting any missing bank movements
• Reconciling the gallery's petty cash and posting expenses
• Reviewing and posting staff expenses and working with assistants to ensure expense reports are satisfactorily prepared each month
• Matching incoming AR payments to sales invoices and updating sales software
• Notifying relevant parties once AR payments are received
• Posting AR receipts to accounting software
• Preparing sundry invoices from order form
• Posting AP invoices and setting up the regular AP payment runs on accounting software
• Preparing payment files for uploading to the bank
• Responding to internal and external queries on AP payment statuses
• Preparing AP and expenditure reports
• Assisting with the review of client AML documents and maintaining customer due diligence files
• Assisting in the preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements and responding to auditor requests
• Assisting in the preparation of various tax returns, including VAT, EC sales, artist resale right, etc.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Previous experience working as part of a finance function
• A background within the Creative industry would be highly desirable
• Studying towards or qualified ACCA/CIMA would be advantageous
• Good fundamental knowledge of UK accounting and tax principles and familiarity with accounting software
• Great knowledge of Excel and Google docs and the ability to work with and manipulate financial data
• Good communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work proactively and autonomously with an understanding of how to prioritise time-sensitive and competing tasks