Accountant Role Description Key Responsibilities Payroll Management:Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and company policies. Prepare and maintain accurate financial records and ledgers: Record daily financial transactions, post journal entries, and ensure all accounts reflect up-to-date and accurate financial data. Sage Accounting Software: Utilise Sage accounting software to manage financial transactions, payroll, and reporting with accuracy and efficiency. Expense Processing: Review and process employee expense claims efficiently, maintaining accuracy and adherence to company procedures. Manage accounts payable and receivable: Process supplier invoices, issue customer invoices, track payments, manage credit control, and reconcile supplier and customer accounts. Perform regular account reconciliations: Conduct monthly, quarterly, and year-end reconciliations to verify account balances, identify discrepancies, and ensure financial accuracy. Assist with financial statements: Support the preparation of profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports to provide management with a clear financial overview. Handle statutory returns: Prepare and file VAT, PAYE, and other government-related returns accurately and on time to maintain compliance with tax regulations. Support budgeting and forecasting: Assist management with annual budgets, monitor variances, and contribute insights to improve financial planning and performance. Participate in audits: Work with internal and external auditors by gathering, reviewing, and submitting necessary documentation and reports. Ensure compliance: Adhere to accounting standards (GAAP/IFRS), internal policies, and financial regulations to maintain integrity and transparency in reporting. Monitor transactions and resolve discrepancies: Investigate and correct posting errors, payment mismatches, or irregularities to maintain clean financial records. Drive process improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, enhance internal controls, and improve efficiency in reporting and data accuracy. Accounts Team Coordination: Lead and support team members to achieve performance goals, foster professional growth, and maintain a positive, collaborative work environment. Skills & Competencies Analytical and numerical ability: Strong capability to interpret financial data, identify trends, and support informed business decisions. Attention to detail: Consistently ensures accuracy in data entry, reconciliations, and financial documentation. Advanced Excel skills: Experienced in using pivot tables, complex formulas, VLOOKUPs, and data analysis tools for financial reporting. Organization and time management: Capable of handling multiple priorities, meeting deadlines, and maintaining accuracy under pressure. Communication skills: Able to present financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders. Teamwork and independence: Works effectively within a team environment but also takes initiative to complete tasks independently. Qualifications & Experience Education: Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline. Professional certification: ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA qualification (or currently pursuing) preferred. Experience: 25+ years of hands-on accounting or financial reporting experience, ideally in a fast-paced or multi-entity environment. Technical expertise: Proven experience in financial analysis, reconciliations, month-end close, and statutory reporting requirements. **Flexible Working Hours Available ** Skills: Preparation of annual accounts Financial Statements Year End Accounting ACCA VAT reporting Accounts Management Qualified Accounting