Accounts Assistant / Ap – Financial Services

Our client has an exciting requirement for a Assistant Accountant/Accounts Payable who has previous experience in Financial Services (ideally banking, broking or Asset Management) in a similar role to hit the ground and add value quickly in this fast paced environment.

Based in the City, the role is working for a large brokers and sits in a medium sized finance team as the person in charge of accounts payable. Your responsibilities are as follows:

• Processing invoices, including obtaining internal approvals, coding and posting
• Payment of invoices through regular payment runs, including managing the creditors positions and ensuring suppliers are paid on time
• Reconciliation of Aged Creditors
• VAT – ensuring the correct VAT treatment is applied to all invoices
• Staff expenses
• Raising Sales invoices
• Ensuring collection of Accounts Receivable
• Accruals and prepayments
• Petty Cash across multi currencies
• Ad-hoc tasks

Most of this role will be spent on Accounts Payable.

YOU WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED IF YOU HAVE WORKED IN FINANCIAL SERVICES AND HAVE THE RELEVANT ACCOUNTS PAYABLE/ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT DUTIES.

You will need to work efficiently and communicate in a professional manner. You will also need to meet tight deadlines and be self motivated and have excellent attention to detail.