Accounts Assistant
Sittingbourne - Office Based
£40,000-£45,000
Full-Time Permanent
Monday to Friday 8am-5pm
Benefits:
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension
- Relaxed dress code
Our client is looking to appoint an experienced Accounts Assistant to manage their company accounts. You will be an experienced user of Sage Accounts and Sage Payroll.
Key Responsibilities as Accounts Assistant:
- Filing of statutory returns such as VAT, PAYE, and NI
- Monthly invoicing, statements and progressing outstanding accounts.
- Bank Reconciliations
- Assisting with payroll
- Handling petty cash
- Prepare information for the accountant to complete the quarterly management accounts.
- Dealing with foreign currency
- Checking and sending timesheets to payroll company they use weekly -
- Raising sales invoices and processing purchase ledger - estimate about 50 a week
- Ensuring HMRC is paid - report will come in via payroll company and in house systems - they use Sage and a bespoke software which they will train on
- Posting invoices to factoring (Invoice discounting ) company they use
- Chasing clients up for monies outstanding
Key Requirements:
- Accounting (3 Years minimum experience in accounting, bookkeeping and office administration)
- Sage
- Microsoft Word and Excel
- Dealing with foreign currency (desirable but not essential)
- Invoice discounting (desirable but not essential)
- Having worked in an industrial environment (desirable but not essential)
Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.