Summary
Sonning Golf Club seeks an individual with solid SME accounts experience, who can hit the ground running, with good communications skills, an outgoing personality and who seeks a varied hands-on role taking day to day responsibility for the whole accounting function.
Reporting to the General Manager, and head office finance function, the role takes responsibility for preparing and maintaining the accounts for the business.
This includes daily takings, sales invoices, managing purchase and sales ledger, bank reconciliations, payroll, fixed asset register and the preparation of management accounts and year end accounts to trial balance level.
Strong Excel skills are important, and a working knowledge of Sage Line 50, and Sage Payroll advantageous.
A full time role, but with the potential for flexible hours.
Specific responsibilities include:
Bank/cash
Reconciliation of daily takings to till rolls, pdq receipts, recording and banking
Posting to SAGE of all bank/cash/credit card/member's card transactions (receipts and payments)
Reconciliation of bank accounts, PDQ accounts and petty cash
Sales Ledger
Producing annual membership subscriptions from Intelligent Golf
Recording of membership subscriptions on SAGE
Reconciliation of SAGE sales ledger and control accounts with Intelligent Golf members accounts.
Recording bar, green fee and other ancillary golf related sales
Invoicing of functions, meeting rooms and events
Taking and responding to member and client accounts/finance queries
Credit control and collection of client debts.
Purchase Ledger
Collate and disperse purchase invoices to departmental heads for approval and coding (monitor to ensure return on timely basis)
Review accuracy of invoices, matching of delivery notes and approvals and posting to SAGE
Prepare twice-monthly payment runs and upload payment to online banking system for manager approval
Stock
Supervise stock takes
Monthly Bar stock count
Check pricing of line items and prepare stock valuation
Payroll
Collation of weekly timesheet rotas from departmental heads
Prepare monthly payroll for salaried & hourly staff
Upload payments to online banking system for manager approval
Prepare and post payroll journal on SAGE
Reconcile PAYE/NIC and upload monthly payment to online banking system for manager approval.
Administration of pensions auto-enrolment
Preparing P11D's
Prepare year-end returns
VAT
Prepare quarterly VAT returns
Reporting
Prepare finance element of weekly management report
Complete review of trial balance (including reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts, maintenance of fixed asset register, post depreciation, accrual and prepayment journals).
Preparation of monthly management accounts
Other
Assist with general office administration including:
- Telephone answering
- Members & client queries
Prepare quarterly returns for golf insurance
Assisting auditors and head office finance function with enquiries
Providing support, and cover to General Manager for general adhoc issues
Such other duties and tasks as the Company may from time to time reasonably require.