Assistant Accountant/Finance Manager
Purpose of Role
I'm looking for an AAT4 Assistant Accountant/ Finance Manager to manage the daily and strategic needs of a growing business and to be responsible for providing financial guidance and so that the business can make sound commercial decisions.
This role requires the individual to work with all levels of the organisation in order to ensure the financial requirements of the business are managed promptly and keep up to date. The individual is required to have good knowledge of the financial working of small business and should be working towards or recently completed a recognised financial qualification. Ideally AAT4
Key tasks include:
- Supervising accounts assistant
- Managing credit control on a daily/weekly basis
- Managing the invoice discounting procedure
- Managing the weekly payment runs (GBP and FX)
- Calculating monthly foreign exchange requirements
- Completing monthly accrual and prepayment posting and reconciliations
- Performing bank reconciliations
- Managing staff payroll and expenses payments
- Liaising with Operations team
- Managing financial and management accounting reporting systems
- Liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out
- Formulating annual budgets
- other ad hoc taks as required
Attributes and Experience required
The desired skills of a successful candidate will include:
- Able to demonstrate excellent Microsoft Office Skills
- Self-motivated with a proactive approach to work and a 'can do' attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong organisational skills
- Knowledge of Quickbooks accounting package preferred
Hours 9-5 and plenty of free parking
Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy
Only candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days, please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions come in.