Assistant Accountant

Provallar Executive Search; Watford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Salary

Yearly bonus and/or Annual pay review

25 days of annual leave + bank holidays

Workplace Pension Scheme

60% Discount on products

Staff product discounts

Job summary

A leading fashion brand house is seeking an Assistant Accountant in their Watford office. The role requires at least 3 years of financial accounting experience, proficiency in SAGE 200, and the ability to work to deadlines. Responsibilities include processing invoices, maintaining ledgers, and assisting with VAT preparation. The company offers an excellent salary, yearly bonus potential, and various benefits, including a 60% discount on products.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience, including financial accounting.
• Experience in using SAGE 200 or equivalent accounting package.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines with attention to detail.
• Experience in working to strict deadlines, attention to detail and ability to work with other members of the team.

Responsibilities

• Update cashbook for all currencies daily.
• Process purchase/bought ledger invoices.
• Prepare weekly payment runs and maintain AP ledgers.
• Assist with preparing VAT and managing recurring journals.
• Maintaining AP ledgers, AP spreadsheets and reports.
• Ensuring documents are authorised as per company procedures including chasing other members of staff for approval.
• 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

Skills

Financial accounting

SAGE 200

ERP System

Excel (VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables)

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Education

AAT fully qualified or part qualified ACCA or CIMA

Tools

SAGE 200

STYLEman ERP system

Excel (VLOOKUPs & Pivot Tables)

Job description

Our client, an international fashion brand house and a long-standing partner of ours for over 22 years, is seeking an Assistant Accountant in Watford office (Occasional travel to London and other client offices required).

We have placed hundreds of professionals within this group over the years. It is a business where people grow, develop, and build long-term careers. The culture is supportive, entrepreneurial, and values contribution and performance.

Professional experience

• 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.

Qualification

AAT fully qualified or part qualified ACCA or CIMA

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Maintaining AP ledgers, AP spreadsheets and reports.
• Ensuring documents are authorised as per company procedures including chasing other members of staff for approval.
• 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

Client offers

• Excellent Salary
• Yearly bonus (at the Directors discretion) and/or Annual pay review
• 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. https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions
• 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.