Sewell Wallis are working with a leading Sheffield based business who are leaders in offering immigration services. Due to expansion, they're now looking to recruit for an Accounts Assistant to join their team on a permanent basis.
The ideal candidate will have experience processing sales and purchase invoices, as well as running a small payroll and reporting on management and statutory accounts.
What will you be doing?
- Checking creditor invoices for accuracy and recoverable or reverse charges VAT, posting the invoices into the ledger.
- Creating payments in the bank and tracking them to ensure they have reached the beneficiaries, liaison with the bank regarding any compliance issues.
- Producing debtor invoices and chasing payment if required.
- Collation of monthly payroll data, to send to the external payroll provider.
- Processing of travel and subsistence claims.
- Investigate any differences in third party payments in conjunction with the external payroll provider.
- Regular bank reconciliation.
- Ensuring each company's current account has enough funds to pay creditors, transferring from savings accounts as required.
- Transacting cash transfers between companies.
- Provision of monthly financial reports to partner organisations showing their case delivery, spending and advance balances.
- Support the partner organisations with ad hoc finance queries.
- Month end close down including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments.
- Monthly management accounts reporting.
What skills are we looking for?
- Proven experience (5+ years preferred) in a finance role, within a small organisation, with a variety of responsibilities.
- Experience of using small business finance ledgers (Xero preferred).
- Experience of working with multiple currencies (desirable).
- Exceptional numerical and analytical skills, including the capability to produce complex reports with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work with all levels of the organisation and external stakeholders.
- Strong time management skills, independent working and management of own workload.
- Microsoft office including the use of Excel at an intermediate level.
What's on offer?
- Hybrid working after 3 months.
- Company pension.
- Westfield health.
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