Assistant Accountant – Immediate Start – North Somerset

Assistant Accountant – Immediate Start – North Somerset

To assist the Finance Department with financial accounting duties and provide support to the Financial Accountant with ad hoc assignments.

Main duties of the Assistant Accountant role are:

• To post bank account transaction onto Sage Cashbook.

• To prepare and enter journals for adjustments, prepayments, and accruals.

• To code supplier invoices and staff expenses, and distribute for authorisation, post onto the Sage Purchase ledger, and prepare supplier payments for processing by BACS.

• To prepare weekly supplier payment runs and other sundry payments and ensure that these are properly recorded and despatched.

• To allocate all Sales ledger receipts on to Sage Client accounts.

• To ensure that supplier statements are reconciled to Purchase ledger and queries are resolved efficiently.

Other responsibilities:

• To prepare Weekly Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).

• To prepare Weekly shift analysis for distribution to Management and Sales teams.

• To distribute company statements to card holders for completion, and post onto Sage Cashbook.

• To assist as required in processing weekly payments to Locum Doctors, both via purchase ledger and PAYE.

• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Essential skills needed for the Assistant Accountant role are:

• Previous experience of Sales and Purchase ledger

• Excellent attention to detail skills

• Great communication skills and a good team player

• Experience of using SAGE

This is a temporary on-going position based in North Somerset, looking to start immediately -please forward CVs as soon as possible.

Typical working hours for this role are 9.00am – 5.00pm (Mondayn- Friday) at £12 per hour.