Accounts Assistant

Location

Epsom, Surrey | United Kingdom

Job description

Accounts Assistant - part time - Epsom town centre

£27,000 - £30,000 PA pro-rata to 2 days a week, dependent on experience

A busy IT Recruitment Agency in Epsom is currently looking for a part time Accounts Assistant, to join our 4-person Finance & Contracts Team, working 2 days per week.

The job will involve working with the Senior Accounts Assistant and Finance Director to process routine accounting transactions in sterling and euros for both our UK and Belgian companies.

Specific responsibilities will be:

• Maintenance of multiple cashbooks (GBP and EUR), including posting all transactions, allocating client receipts and supplier payments to relevant invoices, and allocating nominal payments to correct expense category.
• Coding and posting of all overhead invoices; scheduling invoices for payment; setting up payments, sending remittance advices and ensuring integrity of purchase ledger.
• Coding and posting staff and directors' expense claims and credit card statements and raising payments for expenses.
• Dealing promptly with queries from suppliers, contractors, staff and management.
• Preparing reports and sample data for quarterly audits by invoice discounting supplier and annual audits by external accountants and dealing with audit queries.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for providing cover for accounting tasks carried out by Senior Accounts Assistant, eg processing contractor timesheets, creating and processing sales invoices, and contractor self-bill invoices in our online timesheet recording system, as well as assisting with credit control. You may occasionally be called upon to provide cover for the creation of contract documentation for workers contract assignments; training will be given in this area.

To succeed in this position, you will need good knowledge of and experience in processing of purchase and sales ledger and cashbooks, together with solid experience of Sage 50 and an intermediate level of competence in Excel . You must be capable of working independently but also be a team player, able to demonstrate flexibility, competence, and lots of common sense. Interpersonal skills are very important, as is the ability to work to deadlines. Excellent organisational skills are a pre-requisite.

It is currently envisaged that the role will be 2 days per week and would be worked on a Monday or Tuesday plus a Thursday, but this is subject to change and the selected candidate will ideally be able to demonstrate flexibility on days worked.

The 2 days will be worked in the Epsom town centre office.

Please send your CV with full contact details to (see below)

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Salary

£27k - £30k per annum