Sales and Purchase Ledger - ideally with SIMS
London Based
£16-18 per hour
Full-Time Temporary
Starting ASAP
Hybrid - 1 day a week WFH
Our client is looking for a Temp with accounting experience to join their team. You will be responsible for the timely entry of accounting transactions in the accounting system SIMS.
Key Responsibilities as Bought and Purchase Ledger:
Sales ledger / Credit control:
- Raise and send termly SEN invoices to LAs and other schools.
- Reconcile customer accounts to ensure outstanding balances are complete and accurate.
- Send statements to debtors and correspond to chase any unpaid debt (by phone, email, letter etc) on a weekly basis.
- Ensure appropriate action is taken regarding any unpaid fees.
- Deal with debtor queries and requests.
Purchase ledger:
- Ensure the purchasing process is correctly followed by the schools.
- Ensure correct G/L coding and adequate description.
- Supplier invoices are scanned and matched with the PO.
- Ensure all credit card transactions are fully processed, with invoices / receipts scanned and processed via SIMS Finance.
- Reconcile supplier accounts to ensure outstanding balances are complete and accurate.
- To download monthly utility and telecom bills
- Liaise with suppliers to deal with any queries.
- Liaise with Schools purchasing team.
- Weekly payment runs via BACS
Bank and cash:
- Ensure correct and timely posting and allocation of bank, credit card and cash transactions.
- Assist with Bank reconciliations.
General ledger:
- Collate and provide information for monthly journals for example: accruals, deferred income, prepayments, accrued income etc.
- Produce reconciliations.
- Provide information and answer queries of Finance and School teams as required.
- Assist with internal and external auditor queries.
- Other tasks
- Monitor and administer shared mail inboxes
Key Requirements:
- Experienced Accountant / Bookkeeper / Administrator
- Experience of working in a school is desirable, but not essential.
- SIMS Finance experience would be beneficial.
- AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) or similar qualification preferred but "Qualified by Experience" would be welcome to apply.
- Experienced and confident user of accounting software and IT generally.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Self-starter, able to carry out account reconciliations.
- Willing to take on varying projects and other administrative tasks, as required, in a small office team.
- Pleasant, professional manner in dealing with colleagues, suppliers etc.
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.