Accounts Assistant

SixWorks; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Defence and Security Sector is seeking a detail-oriented Accounts Assistant on a temporary basis. The role involves providing comprehensive support to the finance team, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and requires strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance function.
• Familiarity with NetSuite desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Distributing customer invoices and following up on overdue invoices.
• Maintaining the bank feed on NetSuite and completing monthly bank reconciliations.
• Assisting with the annual audit.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Flexibility

Initiative

Education

AAT Qualified

Studying AAT

QBE

Tools

Microsoft Excel

NetSuite

Job description

We are seeking an
Accounts Assistant to join our team on a temporary basis.

Play a vital role in a fast moving, innovative and influential company operating in the Defence and Security Sector.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Accounts Assistant to join our finance team.

Reporting to the Senior Project Accountant, the Accounts Assistant will be responsible for providing comprehensive support to our finance function, facilitating accurate and timely financial reporting.

You will need a focus on people, you will need to be comfortable embracing our values, standards and our ways of working:

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery.

• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others.

• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills and effective questioning/listening skills. Able to communicate with confidence.
• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from day-to-day finance operations to 'rolling up your sleeves' to assist the team and customer in delivery.

• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value.

• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges.

• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution.

• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training.

• Integrity - Always Promote a high professional standard.

Experience:
• Experience in a finance function
• Analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to interpret and organise financial data.
• Familiarity with NetSuite desirable but not essential. Must be competent using Microsoft Excel.

Qualifications:
• Studying AAT, AAT Qualified or QBE

Tasks / Responsibilities:
• Accounts Receivable - Distributing customer invoices and following up on overdue invoices.
• Accounts Payable - Adding supplier invoices to Netsuite and processing the weekly payment run via the bank.
• Contractor Invoices - Check contractor invoices match approved timesheets.
• Expense Process - Be the final approver of all expenses, checking they are routed to the correct project/ledger codes.
• Bank - Maintain the bank feed on Netsuite and complete monthly bank reconciliations.
• MI Reporting - Complete the monthly management information report to Crown Commercial Services.
• Credit Card Statements - Administer the credit card process.
• Audit - Assist with the annual audit.
• Time Sheets - Provide support to the Operations team for time sheeting.
• Other Duties - As required by management.

About SiXworks

SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments.

We are unified in our mission to accelerate innovation and adoption of secure, digital technology to improve the operational agility of Defence and National Security.

This is an exciting time for us, we have ambitious plans for continued growth and development, and we are seeking to add brilliant, experienced, motivated, and passionate people to our team to work with us on this journey.

Why join SiXworks?

Our team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of digital innovation!

SiXworks' expertise includes Secure-by-Design, cloud computing, advanced network and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-tenanted High-Performance Compute, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation, and intelligence systems. We provide supplier-agnostic, technical, and business consultancy to customers while championing open-source and best-of-breed technologies.

A word on UK Security Clearance

Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.

More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here:

United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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