Assistant Accountant
- Location: Leatherhead, Surrey (Hybrid, 3 days from home, and 2 from the office)
- Job Type: Temporary for 3- 5 months
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Hourly rate: £16.00 PAYE or £19.84 via an umbrella company.
We are seeking an Assistant Accountant to join our finance team on a temporary basis during a critical period of year-end activities and system migration. This role is integral to ensuring that our accounting system is up-to-date and accurate. The successful candidate will be proactive, customer-focused, and capable of building strong relationships across the organisation.
Day to Day of the role:
- Ensure invoices are correctly coded, authorised, and filed.
- Make timely payments to suppliers, tenants, and staff for expenses.
- Handle new vendor creation and vendor changes.
- Prepare weekly BACS payment runs to ensure creditors are paid within their terms.
- Maintain signatory lists for invoice approval and payments.
- Manage day-to-day banking matters and liaise with transactional bankers.
- Perform bank and balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining accurate balances.
- Resolve supplier queries effectively.
- Post transactions to the accounts ledger, including credit card transactions, staff expenses, and all bank movements.
- Complete the month-end purchase ledger close procedure.
- Forecast short-term cash flow on a weekly/monthly basis and liaise with the Treasury regarding funding requirements.
- Assist with internal and external audits.
- Support the Finance Manager with month-end or year-end reporting as required.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- AAT qualified or part-qualified.
- At least 2 years of experience working in a finance team.
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles, including reconciliations.
- Experience with Purchase Ledger.
- Understanding of VAT.
- Ability to build good working relationships and possess strong communication skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and Word.
- Housing Sector experience is desirable but not essential.
- Experience of Business Central would be ideal.