Finance Assistant

Uxbridge Employment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable recruitment firm is seeking a Finance Assistant in Ruislip to support their busy accounts team. The ideal candidate will have experience in finance, strong MS Office skills, and be committed to furthering their career in accounting. This role offers benefits such as 25 days holiday and support towards obtaining finance qualifications.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Early finish on Fridays

Support for finance qualification

Salary sacrifice pension

Life insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Ideally studying for an accounting qualification.
• All round Finance/Accounts experience.
• Strong MS Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Creating and updating supplier accounts.
• Posting supplier invoices across business units.
• Performing 2- and 3-way match on invoices.
• Liaising with suppliers regarding queries.
• Initiating purchase ledger payments.
• Performing bank reconciliations.

Skills

Accounting qualification

Finance/Accounts experience

Strong MS Office skills

Commitment and dedication

Attention to detail

Verbal communication

Education

AAT/CIMA/ACCA qualifications

Tools

Excel

Concur

Job description

Finance Assistant

Salary 30k

Location: Ruislip

Are you looking to further develop your career in Accounts? Are you studying for any qualifications AAT/CIMA/ACCA? Are you a committed person with real drive and ambition and prepared to work hard to achieve your career goal?

My client is now seeking an additional person for their busy accounts team. You will have some proven Finance/Accounts experience and be confident with Excel and other data systems. This is a position where hard work and dedication will be noticed. You will be highly numerate, commercially astute and possess great MS Office or Dynamis experience (training given on this if needed). 25 days holiday, early 4 p.m. finish on Friday, support given to obtain your finance qualification, salary sacrifice pension, life insurance, cycle to work scheme.

Responsibilities – Reporting to the Finance Manager

• Creating new, and updating existing, supplier accounts, ensuring all supplier approval processes are followed.
• Posting supplier invoices across numerous business units, ensuring they are coded correctly, and queries are resolved.
• Performing a 2- and 3-way match on invoices, PO’s and GRN’s.
• Liaising with suppliers and internal personnel as and when queries and other issues arise relating to supplier invoices, document match and payments.
• Initiating purchase ledger payments within the online banking system, ensuring all payments are allocated correctly and timely within the accounting system.
• Performing supplier statement reconciliations on a regular basis.
<>Process and review employee and credit card expenses in Concur and perform monthly reconciliations.

Accounting

• Maintain daily cashbook for all Group bank accounts and perform weekly bank reconciliations.
• Post inter-company journals and reconcile inter-company transactions within loan accounts and trading accounts.
• Prepare and post month end journals for multiple business units.
• Assist in preparation of prepayments and accruals for multiple business units.
• Assist the finance manager with balance sheet reconciliations when required.
• Ownership and completion of the monthly mobile phone report and vehicle fleet sheet.
• Assist Finance Manager with any other month end and year end related tasks as required.

Credit Control

• Assist the Credit control team as and when required.

Skills required

• Ideally studying for an accounting qualification.
• All round Finance/Accounts experience.
• Strong MS Office skills.
• Highly committed and dedicated in approach.
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong verbal communication.
• PL exp.

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