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 POs 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 theRegister.
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