Job title: Assistant Accountant
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Watford office
Salary: £32,000 to £36,000 per annum (depending on qualifications and experience).
Qualification: AAT fully qualified or part qualified ACCA or CIMA
Professional experience:
*Minimum 3 years including financial accounting and preferably with some experience in a firm of chartered accountants.
*Experience in using SAGE 200 or equivalent accounting package.
*Experience in using ERP System, Excel (minimum VLOOKUPS and Pivot Tables).
*Experience in working to strict deadlines, attention to detail and ability to work with other members of the team.
Roles and Responsibilities:
*Checking bank statements and updating the cashbook for all currencies (daily).
*Processing purchase/bought ledger invoices:
*Retrieving information from supplier portals/emails.
*Posting/analysis/inputting of invoices/credits on to SAGE 200 including coding to trial balance accounts.
*Checking VAT amounts charged.
*Maintaining AP ledgers, AP spreadsheets and reports.
*Ensuring documents are authorised as per company procedures including chasing other members of staff for approval.
*Maintaining nominal ledger.
*Managing recurring and monthly journals.
*Ensuring the purchase invoices tie up with purchase orders/GRN’s.
*Preparing weekly payment runs/weekly cash flow.
*Uploading payments on the bank’s net banking system.
*Posting and allocating payments received and sent on a daily basis.
*Checking purchase/bought ledger statements.
*Communicating with suppliers by phone or email.
*Archiving accounts’ documents as per company procedure, including scanning AP documentation onto SAGE 200.
*Assisting with preparing the VAT.
*Processing staff credit card expenses and analysis.
*Assisting with raising customer credit notes.
*Uploading invoices/credit notes in the portal for the German subsidiary companies.
*Maintaining/updating the fixed assets register.
*Issuing intercompany invoices or debit notes.
*Carrying out the month-end procedure on ERP system (i.e. Debtors Report/Stock report.)
*Carrying out ad-hoc reporting and finance or operations related tasks.