Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Robert Half is pleased to partner with an SME group company who are looking to add a new accountant into the function to support the Head of Finance in what is an all encompassing role.The successful candidate will carry out responsibilities from purchase ledger through to trial balance and beyond depending on experience. You will work to support with both the transactional finance and work with different operational stakeholders from sales/ marketing and IT in order improve the overall business strategy. This is a role with definite scope for progression and would suit someone who considers themselves a proactive problem solver.
Role Responsibilities
- Purchase Ledger: You will be responsible for posting and paying invoices for the three entities including FX currency transactions and payments.
- Payments/Expenses: You will manage the process of paying staff advances and processing expenses,raise any payment queries with appropriate colleagues.
- Credit cards/Foreign currency cards: You will be responsible for posting and reconciling credit card expenses and foreign currency cards to the nominal ledgers.
- Bank reconciliations: You will post bank transactions and be responsible for bank reconciliations on a weekly basis.
- Month-end processes: You will support the finance lead in the month end process by producing and posting journals, including prepayments, accruals and depreciation. You will reconcile balance sheet control accounts, maintain inter-company trading balances and produce profit reports.
- Invoicing: You will oversee the invoicing process for a variety of conferencing services and room hires and ensure timely and accurate income/cost recovery. You will ensure invoices are paid within agreed time limits.
- Problem solving: You will be able to identify discrepancies in ledgers and accounts, tracking them to the source and correcting them.
- Year end: You will assist with year-end audit requests.
- Team support: You will communicate with and support the wider team on an ad-hoc basis as required
- Process Improvement: You will constantly aim to improve efficiency, making proactive suggestions and implementing process enhancements.
Role Requirements
- Bookkeeping experience in an SME environment
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to apply sound financial principles to all decision making
- Ability to achieve the overall task with a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to get tasks done to timetable
- High levels of numeracy and financial awareness
- Having experience with Sage 200 is beneficial but not essential
- High level of proficiency in using Excel
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Salary
£27.5k - £32.5k per annum
