Assistant Accountant

Salary: £30,000 – £42,000 per year

Title: Assistant Accountant

Salary: £30,000 – £42,000

Location: Newark

Type: Perm

The aim of this role is to provide support to the Finance Director (FD) with Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, monthly Management Accounts, VAT returns and Payroll for three companies. This is a great opportunity to get more exposure in the Month-end accounting procedures.

Responsibilities

• The processing of incoming orders on finance system.
• Ensure all customers are invoiced, applications for payment are processed and customer records are kept up to date on all applicable computer systems.
• Manage the Replay Invoice schedule, ensuring it is kept up to date.
• The daily posting of all incoming receipts.
• Ensure all customers pay on time by being proactive, sending regular statements, chasing payment by email and telephone and resolving any queries.
• Implement debt collection processes.
• Quarterly VAT return.
• Provide support to FD with the preparation of Monthly Management Accounts.
• Post all receipts and payments on Xero.
• Bank and Credit Card reconciliations on Xero.
• Reconciliation of incoming revenue from Stripe.
• Ensure all customers pay on time by being proactive, sending regular statements, chasing payment by email and telephone and resolving any queries.
• Implement debt collection processes.
• Enter Purchase Ledger invoices.
• Prepare monthly payment runs and pass to FD for approval.
• Preparation of monthly management accounts.