Assistant Accountant – Southwell (onsite) - £30k-£40k
Benjamin Edwards are recruiting for an Assistant Accountant for an established business, to support the Finance Manager and Finance Director as deemed necessary, including with provision of financial information to assist the business.
The role of the Assistant Accountant
*Responsibility for all aspects of day-to-day credit control management and collection of customer debt
*Work to meet your individual and team KPI’s to enable the Finance Director to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting
*Creating new customer and supplier accounts on Sage and PSA
*Processing sales orders into Sage
*Raising purchase orders in Sage
*Processing bank/cash payments & receipts onto Sage
*Processing of credit card expenses onto Excel and Sage
*Promptly raise sales invoices and applications for payments upon completion of work
*Uploading invoices onto customer portals as required
*Inputting supplier invoices, validating nominal coding and matching POD’s
*Ensure the order book is regularly updated
*Accruals and prepayments
*Month end and correcting journals – prepare and post
*Bank reconciliations
*Stock management – maintaining computerised records
*Maintaining project cost records and reporting
*Involvement in preparing monthly management accounts
*Involvement in budgeting and forecasting
*Payroll processing
*Preparing and filing CIS and VAT
*Day to day supervision and support to the Accounts Assistants
*Report design and presentation of key data to Departmental Heads and Directors
*Ad-hoc support to the Financial Controller
The ideal candidate for the role of Assistant Accountant
*AAT qualified
*Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Accounts
*Experienced in the use of Sage or a similar package
*Intermediate level Excel skills, as a minimum