Accounts Assistant
Job Description
Grafton Banks Limited
Grafton Banks Finance are currently working with a well respected commercial business in Central Brighton to recruit an Accounts Assistant on a full time permanent basis. Reporting into the Financial Controller and working in a team you will be responsible for processing, reconciliations and financial control of banks accounts, receipts and other control accounts for various entities of the business.
On a day to day basis your duties and responsibilities will include:
- Accurate and timely bank postings and reconciliations
- Process postings and reconciliations
- Reconciliation of petty cash records
- Investigate and clear aged unreconciled bank/cashbook transactions
- Accurate month end bank/cashbook to GL reconciliations
- Prepare monthly reconciliation of balance sheet control accounts to include Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Refunds & Deposits, Suspense Ledgers
- Investigate and clear aged control account transactions to include debit balances on Accounts Payable and cleaning up bookings
- Assist the Control Manager with month/quarter end responsibilities and ensure deadlines are met
- Assist with preparation of year end reconciliations and collating supporting documents for auditors as required
- Ensure day to day queries are dealt with in a timely and effective manner and pending issues are followed up
- Mailbox management; track and clear queries in a timely manner
- Troubleshoot system issues as required
- Continuous improvement; identify and recommend improvements to processes to improve efficiency
The successful candidate will be studying towards an Accountancy qualification ( AAT or foundation stage ACCA) with a proven experience of high volume processing and reconciling financial information. Knowledge & a good understanding of the Accounts Payable & Receivable function would be beneficial and Good Excel skills V-Lookup and Pivot tables would be essential to manage financial information. For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package including study support.
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