Accounts Assistant

My client a Digital Media agency are looking for an all round Accounts Assistant to join there growing Finance team. This role will be reporting into the senior Management accountant and working closely with the Finance Director.

Key Purpose of the Role:
• Deliver the highest quality management information to monitor and drive business performance and improvement.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of all financial information and analysis.
• Provide a first class finance service that is responsive to the needs of the business and managers.
• Need to be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into the detail including data entry.

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintaining cash book and bank accounts, including downloading daily bank statements, performing daily and/or weekly bank reconciliations across all bank accounts, including foreign currency accounts.
• Employee credit card reconciliation and posting
• Accounts receivable invoice generation, liaising with the Client Services team to ensure all fee schedules are complete and billings is accurate.
• Credit control management to ensure timely payment of invoices, liaising with the FC to predict cash inflows.
• Full control of revenue – completion of all fee reconciliations including processing of media spend accruals, accrued income and deferred income. Maintaining the contracts database to ensure we have detailed contracts for all existing clients.
• Assist with client profitability reporting and ensure that we maintain records of income and costs by client.
• Cost analysis and comparisons to budget and prior year e.g. link costs, professional fees.
• General journal and other primary ledger postings.
• Detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts and major profit and loss lines including fixed assets (capital and depreciation), accruals and prepayments, cash balances including FX movements, VAT and PAYE (including returns).
• Cost analysis and comparisons to budget and prior year e.g. link costs, professional fees.
• Ad hoc reporting and analysis.