Junior/Trainee Accounts Assistant
26-30k DOE
Ruislip
Are you looking to kickstart or further develop your career in Accounts?
Are you studying for any qualifications AAT/CIMA/ ACCA?
Are you a committed person with real drive and ambition and prepared to work hard to achieve your career goal?
My client is now seeking an additional person for their busy accounts team. You may already have PL experience and are wanting to further develop OR you may be a recent graduate or similar looking for your first finance-based career role?
This is a position where training will be given if required but you do need to be highly numerate, commercially astute and possess great MS office or Dynamics experience (training given on this if needed)
25 days holiday, early 4 pm finish on Friday, support given in order to obtain your finance qualification, salary sacrifice pension, life insurance, cycle to work scheme.
Reporting to the Finance Manager duties will involve Accounts Payable
- Creating new, and updating existing, supplier accounts, ensuring all supplier approval processes are followed.
- Posting of supplier invoices across numerous business units, ensuring they are coded correctly, and queries are resolved.
- Performing a 2- and 3-way match on invoices, PO's and GRN's.
- Liaising with suppliers and internal personnel as and when queries and other issues arise relating to supplier invoices, document match and payments.
- Initiating purchase ledger payments within the online banking system, ensuring all payments are allocated correctly and timely within the accounting system.
- Performing supplier statement reconciliations on a regular basis.
- Process and review employee and credit card expenses in Concur and perform monthly reconciliations.
Accounting
- Maintain cashbook daily for all Group bank accounts and perform weekly bank reconciliations on all Group bank accounts.
- Post inter-company journals and reconcile inter-company transactions within loan accounts and trading accounts.
- Prepare and post month end journals for multiple business units.
- Assist in preparation of prepayments and accruals for multiple business units.
- Assist the finance manager with balance sheet reconciliations when required.
- Ownership and completion of the monthly mobile phone report and vehicle fleet sheet.
- Assist Finance Manager with any other month end and year end related tasks as required. Assist in implementation of new processes and automation
Skills required
- Ideally studying for an accounting qualification
- Strong MS office skills
- Highly committed and dedicated in approach
- High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong verbal communication
- PL experience
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