Job Description

Paying an attractive salary plus fantastic benefits including bonus (averagely 20%), BUPA health insurance, 4 x salary life assurance, season ticket loan, excellent pension scheme, staff share scheme, sponsorship for relevant qualifications, 25 days holiday plus ability to buy & sell, plus more

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven and motivated graduate to join a highly successful financial services business who is growing year-on-year. You must be interested in getting into accounting as a career and this role will provide broad experience to help you develop and grow, with sponsorship of relevant qualifications. This would suit someone looking to work towards their ACCA.

Role Overview

To assist the Corporate Accounting Reporting Team with a wide variety of Accounts Payable and other tasks.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Accounts payable:

• Processing a high volume of invoices using the accounting system Navision;
• Dealing with staff expenses and company credit cards;
• Raising and processing payment requests via cheque, chaps and bacs;
• Double entry bookkeeping of invoices in the accounting system, including on the prepayments basis where relevant;
• Scanning and filing invoices;
• Liaising with vendors on a daily basis regarding payments;
• Providing Heads of Departments with departmental cost reports and invoice copies;
• Keeping track of aged creditors and stale cheques.

General Corporate Accounting team tasks:

• Assisting accountants with the variance analysis of costs;
• Preparing daily bank reconciliations for 25 corporate bank accounts;
• Petty cash and inter-company reconciliations;
• Preparing reviews of the corporate cash balances, and of the interest received on the corporate bank accounts;
• Providing general support in a busy finance department.

Education and Knowledge Requirements

• University degree
• Good MS Excel skills
• Account payable experience and understanding of double entry bookkeeping – desirable

If you’re a graduate with a desire to start your career within accounting then please apply now to find out more.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities