Accounts Assistant

CPJ Field; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual company gatherings

Long-service awards

Birthday gift

Job summary

CPJ Field is seeking a Finance Professional to join our Accounts team at the Regional Support Centre in Burgess Hill. In this role, you will manage daily finance functions, including reconciliations and support for the management accounts of our subsidiaries.

Ideal candidates will be studying towards AAT/ACCA/CIMA or be qualified by experience, with strong attention to detail and proficient in Xero. We offer a friendly working environment and opportunities to grow across a multi-entity group.

Qualifications

• Solid experience of reconciliations — bank, card, and balance sheet.
• Confident using Xero.
• Able to manage a varied workload and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile operating accounts each month.
• Administer expense cards and process monthly expense journal.
• Raise cheques, BACS payments, and debit-card refunds.
• Support credit control and produce aged debtor reports.
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns.

Skills

Reconciliations

Xero

Attention to detail

Credit control

Communication

Education

Studying towards AAT, ACCA or CIMA, qualified by experience (QBE) or part-qualified

Job description

CPJ Field & Company is an independent, family-owned funeral company and one of the UK’s longest-established family-owned businesses, caring for bereaved families across the South East with warmth and professionalism.

Alongside our funeral homes, the group includes two subsidiaries whose accounts this role also looks after. It’s a genuinely varied opportunity for someone who enjoys a busy, hands‑on finance role across the group.

About the role:

Reporting to the Management Accountant, you’ll be a key member of our friendly Accounts team at the Regional Support Centre in Burgess Hill. This is a varied, reconciliation‑focused role supporting the day‑to‑day finance of CPJ Field and the management accounts of our two subsidiaries. It’s a great opportunity for someone who wants to broaden their experience across a multi‑entity group and grow with the business.

Key responsibilities

Day‑to‑day finance and reconciliations (CPJ Field):

• Reconcile the operating account each month.
• Administer the Equals expense cards — process the monthly expense journal, top up and order cards as the business requires, and reconcile card activity.
• Raise cheques, BACS payments and debit‑card refunds as requested, through the weekly payment run.
• Reconcile receipts — update EFD daily with BACS transfers and reconcile weekly.
• Chase branches for funeral deposits and ensure timely invoicing, weekly by email.
• Support credit control — produce aged debtor reports and issue final notices to clients once instructed by the funeral home (shared with the Management Accountant).
• Reconcile the Fees account each month.
• Complete the monthly Worldpay and Barclaycard reconciliations.
• Prepare and process the monthly recurring journals and assist with the production of the management accounts.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide support to all the branches on EFD, our in‑house funeral software system.
• Produce the monthly management accounts in Xero, for review by the Management Accountant.
• Pay suppliers, raise sales invoices, and reconcile accruals and prepayment schedules.
• Prepare the quarterly VAT returns.
• Complete the intercompany reconciliation with CPJ Field.

What we’re looking for:

• Studying towards AAT, ACCA or CIMA, qualified by experience (QBE), or part‑qualified.
• Solid experience of reconciliations — bank, card and balance sheet.
• Confident using Xero (our subsidiary accounts are run in Xero).
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical, well‑organised approach.
• Able to manage a varied workload and meet weekly and monthly deadlines.
• A clear communicator, comfortable liaising with branches by phone and email.
• Exposure to VAT returns and intercompany reconciliations.
• Credit control experience.

What we offer:

• Annual company gatherings and social events.
• Long‑service awards, and a gift at Christmas and on your birthday.
• The chance to develop your experience across a multi‑entity group.

Where:

The role will be based at our Regional Support Centre in Burgess Hill. Those who work at Rampion House do not have daily contact with clients or the normal business of funeral service provision.