Accounts Assistant

We are working with a successful business looking to recruit an experienced Accounts Assistant to handle a variety of tasks including the following:

Responsibility for posting sales and purchase invoices; ensuring purchase invoices are properly authorised by the client / other members of the outsource team; preparing remittance advices and agreeing offsets with suppliers; setting up online payments using internet banking; liaising with authorised signatories to ensure the payments are authorised; and posting receipts and payments.

Prepare monthly aged debtors reports and liaise with various members of the client’s team to provide them the information needed for them to chase overdue debtors.

Processing entries into the nominal ledger for the holding company and two subsidiaries and agree inter-company account reconcilations with other subsidiaries in the group. You will process cash book receipts and payments directly into the nominal ledger where required, together with journal entries.

You will be working with GBP, USD and EUR bank accounts and making payments in several other currencies, so need to be comfortable with foreign exchange. Calculation of foreign exchange journals will be part of the monthly bank reconcilations and training will be given to those without direct experience of this.

Produce weekly cash flow reports, and quarterly lists of accruals and prepayments.

The firm offers free on-site parking, 28 days holiday a year including statutory holidays and a 37.5 hour week. Flexible working is possible.

eXactitude Resourcing Limited is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role. eXactitude complies with all relevant UK legislation and doesn’t discriminate on any protected characteristics. If you haven’t heard from us within 5 working days please assume that you have not been successful.