Harmonics Recruitment is currently seeking an Accounts Assistant on behalf of one of our clients. This role is initially offered on a fixed-term contract, with the successful candidate reporting directly to the Senior Financial Accountant.
Accounts Payable
* Matching Invoices to PO's receipted into the system by stores.
* Processing manual invoices not receipted into the system.
* Reconciling Creditors ledger every month‑end, which includes outstanding receipt listing and Edit Accrual List and posting journals to the GL.
* Dealing with general queries and liaising with Purchasing to sort out price and quantity queries on invoices.
* Backup for processing monthly payments run in a timely manner.
* Making sure all internal control procedures are adhered to e.g. proper signatures are on all relevant documents.
* Backup for reviewing and paying of all Duty Travel.
* Reconciling of Petty Cash on a monthly basis.
Payroll (Backup)
* Preparation of weekly payroll in a timely and efficient manner for approximately 200 employees.
* Dealing with any payroll queries from employees as they arise.
* Review and validate all employee duty and non‑duty travel expenses against receipts before processing to the bank twice weekly.
* Updating the revenue returns re employee expense as per new reporting requirements.
Cycle Counting
* Be the finance lead in the weekly cycle counting process, solving any issues that may arise during the year, making sure that all the A,B and C part numbers are counted the correct number of times.
Fixed Asset Register
* Maintaining and updating the Fixed Asset Register, and looking at improvements to be made to the Register.
Person Specification
* An accounting technician or equivalent qualification would be desirable.
* An experienced person conversant with all aspects of the accounting function including AP and GL in a multicurrency environment.
* Previous experience in using a payroll system (Megapay, Sage) is desirable.
* Must have very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel; highly motivated and capable of working on own initiative.
Skills
* Payroll
* Account
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