Job Title: Accounts Assistant
This role involves supporting the finance team with payroll, accounts payable and other financial tasks. The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
Key Responsibilities:
* Prepare and process weekly payroll for employees using current manual timesheet system.
* Reconcile payroll reports to nominal ledger balances.
* Maintain compliance records for all employees.
* Process and payment of employee expenses.
* Preparing and processing of supplier payments on a weekly and monthly basis as required.
* Liaising with site to ensure that supplier invoices are processed and duly authorised.
* Management of Group Credit Cards including reconciliation of receipts and posting transactions.
* Monthly Management Accounts: Assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts.
* Reconcile key balance sheet accounts including accruals and prepayments.
* Ensuring debtors/creditors balances agree with monthly trial balance.
* Reconciling tax records to trial balance.
* Management and reconciliation of Directors Loan accounts.
* Maintenance of Fixed Asset Register.
* Review of intercompany activity and balances.
* Month end internal controls and reconciliations.
* Daily bank postings and weekly bank reconciliations.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* At least 3+ years experience in finance department in commercial environment.
* Strong payroll experience and understanding of accounting procedures.
* Third level qualification or accounting technician qualification (or equivalent) desirable.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Highly proficient in MS Excel and finance systems.
* Sage50 experience a bonus.
Benefits:
* Pension
* Death in Service
* 20 Days Annual Leave
* Parking