Full job descriptionGrafton Banks Finance are working with a respectable services construction company with offices in central London to recruit an Assistant Accountant on an initial 6-month contract On a PART TIME basis 3 days a week to support the business during a busy period. Reporting into the Finance Director and working within a small friendly busy finance team you will be responsible for supporting with the smooth running of the companies’ finances.
Duties and Responsibilities will include:
*Transactional processing:
*Processing bank transactions - posting receipts and payments and performing regular bank reconciliations across
*Purchase ledger: raising purchase orders, logging supplier invoices, matching to purchase orders and approvals, coding to the correct nominal, project and VAT treatment, and preparing payment runs for review and authorisation.
*Processing employee expenses and company credit card transactions, including receipt chasing, nominal and VAT coding, and monthly credit card analysis and reconciliation.
*Maintaining the supplier ledger - supplier set-up, reconciliation to supplier statements, and resolution of queries and disputed items.
*Project support:
*Raising and issuing sales invoices in line with the agreed billing cycle, including milestone and stage-based billing, with supporting documentation attached.
*Chasing and monitoring timesheet completion, escalating persistent non-compliance, and ensuring time is posted to the correct project ahead of billing and month-end
*Credit control support:
*Supporting credit controller with collection as and when required
*Month-end:
*Preparing and posting month-end journals, including prepayments, accruals and recurring journals.
*Preparing balance sheet reconciliations with supporting schedules and investigating and clearing unreconciled items.
*Performing analytical review of costs month on month, investigating variances and escalating as required to document any material movements.
*Maintaining the fixed asset register and posting depreciation.
*VAT and year-end:
*Preparing quarterly VAT returns for review, including reconciliation of the VAT control accounts to the return and to the ledgers.
*Maintaining supporting records and audit trail for VAT and for year-end accounts preparation, including responding to accountant and auditor sample requests.
Experience and Key Skills required for the contract:
*AAT Qualified or Part Qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
*Practical working experience working as an Assistant Accountant running a transactional finance function largely unsupervised, including reconciling to a trial balance.
*Full working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, control accounts and the month-end close cycle.
*Practical, up-to-date UK VAT knowledge and hands-on experience preparing and reconciling quarterly VAT returns.
*Strong purchase and sales ledger experience - invoice processing, payment run preparation and bank reconciliation.
*Confident Excel - lookups, pivot tables, filtering and reconciling large data extracts. Excel is used extensively alongside the ERP for analysis and reconciliation.
*Experience working within an accounting or ERP system, and able to get productive in an unfamiliar platform quickly.
*A self-starter: able to take a defined workload, prioritise it independently, work to a fixed monthly timetable, and raise issues early rather than let them run.
*Accuracy and attention to detail, with the discipline to reconcile rather than assume.
*Clear, professional written and verbal communication. The role involves chasing colleagues, clients and suppliers persistently but constructively.
Due to the contract/ Interim nature of this job opportunity. Candidates available at short notice will take preference. The role is offering a day rate. Working 3 days a week lots of flexibility 1 day in office in London and 2 days working from home.