Company Accountant

Armstrong Knight; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A small company in Cambridge seeks a part-time Company Accountant to manage essential financial tasks. The role involves creating financial transactions, reconciling accounts, and preparing management accounts, requiring GCSE level education and an accounting certificate. Experience in bookkeeping and knowledge of QuickBooks are ideal.

Qualifications

• Essential GCSE level education.
• Accounting certificate required.
• Previous bookkeeping or accounting experience and knowledge of GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Creating financial transactions and posting to accounting journals.
• Reconciling accounts for accuracy.
• Preparing management accounts including cash flow forecasts.

Skills

Teamwork

Accounting principles

Communication

Education

GCSE level (or equivalent)

Accounting certificate

Tools

QuickBooks Accounting Software

Job description

Our client is a small company that manufactures healthy food products. They are looking for a company accountant to cover all essential tasks and become more involved in the company's finances, assisting the directors with accounting information and analyzing financial data for projections.

The main areas of responsibility include:

• Creating financial transactions and posting information to accounting journals or software from source data such as customer invoices, cash receipts, and supplier invoices.
• Reconciling accounts to ensure accuracy.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Process quarterly VAT returns
• Maintain monthly EC sales list
• Manage Intrastat information and submit declarations where required
• Process PAYE payments
• Compile data for the National Office of Statistics as requested
• Prepare management accounts, including annual and quarterly cash flow forecasts
• Assist with budget monitoring
• Prepare management accounts

Stock responsibilities include:

• Entering stock builds
• Assisting with stock balancing and adjustments

Experience and personal qualities required:

• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent) – essential
• An accounting certificate – essential
• Previous bookkeeping or accounting experience and knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles – essential
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team – essential
• Good standard of written and spoken English – essential
• Working knowledge of QuickBooks Accounting Software – desirable

This role is initially part-time, three days per week. Salary is dependent on experience and is pro-rata.

All applicants MUST have a full UK driving licence.