Job Description

What will the role involve?

• Preparing first draft Management accounts for Financial Controller to review
• Preparing Group reports
• Journal entries for accruals and prepayments
• VAT / EC Sales / Intrastat Returns
• Governmental Statistical Returns
• Control Account Reconciliations
• Printing, coding and despatching sales invoices
• Debt collection (including invoice query resolution)
• Allocation of receipts to customer accounts
• Processing of Credit Applications
• Matching goods received notes with purchase orders
• Matching purchase invoices with purchase orders and goods received notes
• Coding and posting purchase invoices to Sage
• Reconciling supplier statements
• Raising payment runs, posting payments to Sage, raising and despatching remittance advices and filing paid invoices
• Bank reconciliations (multiple currencies)

In addition, the applicant should have:

• A pleasant personality
• Enjoy working as part of a team
• Take pride in producing accurate and detailed work to a high standard
• Maintain a sense of humour!

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The role will suit somebody who has already gained a minimum of 3-5 years relevant experience working within a financial accounting environment in most, if not all of the above areas. The ideal candidate will possess some level of professional training (AAT or equivalent) and will have good working knowledge of Sage Accounts and MS Office, particularly Excel. Experience of multi-currency operations is beneficial