Assistant Accountant - 1 Year FTC
- Southend-on-Sea, Essex
- £30,000-32,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Minimum 3 years including financial accounting and preferably with some experience in a firm of chartered accountants
- Experience in using SAGE 200 or equivalent accounting package
- Experience in using ERP System, Excel (minimum VLOOKUPS and Pivot Tables)
- Experience in working to strict deadlines, attention to detail and ability to work with other members of the team
- Checking bank statements and updating the cashbook for all currencies (daily)
- Processing purchase/bought ledger invoices
- Retrieving information from supplier portals/emails
- Posting/analysis/inputting of invoices/credits on to SAGE 200 including coding to trial balance accounts
- Checking VAT amounts charged
- Maintaining AP ledgers, AP spreadsheets and reports
- Ensuring documents are authorised as per company procedures including chasing other members of staff for approval
- Maintaining nominal ledger
- Managing recurring and monthly journals
- Ensuring the purchase invoices tie up with purchase orders/GRN's
- Preparing weekly payment runs/weekly cash flow
- Uploading payments on the bank’s net banking system
- Posting and allocating payments received and sent on a daily basis
- Checking purchase/bought ledger statements
- Communicating with suppliers by phone or email
- Archiving accounts’ documents as per company procedure, including scanning AP documentation onto SAGE 200
- Assisting with preparing the VAT
- Processing staff credit card expenses and analysis
- Assisting with raising customer credit notes
- Uploading invoices/credit notes in the portal for the German subsidiary companies.
- Maintaining/updating the fixed assets register
- Issuing intercompany invoices or debit notes
- Carrying out the month-end procedure on STYLEman ERP system (i.e. Debtors Report/Stock report.)
- Carrying out ad-hoc reporting and finance or operations related tasks
- £30,000 to £32,000 (depending on qualifications & experience)
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional days holiday between Christmas and New Year if the Directors decide to close the business
- Standard working hours 9 to 5:30 - 30 min lunch = 40 hours a week
- 1-day WFH after probation and training at the company’s sole discretion (non-contractual)
- Workplace Pension Scheme
- 60% Discount on our products that we have on Ecommerce
- Sample sales 2+ times a year
- Short Leave – with pre-approval from Line Manager to take up to 2 hours off without deduction from holiday allowance
- Statutory sick pay
- Annual pay review and/or bonus at the Directors discretion