Job Details

Accounts Assistant

Sector:Accountancy

Region : South East England

Location: Maidenhead

Salary: £30,000 to £33,000

Job Ref.: 879888MH

Job Information

Our client is a large international business based in Maidenhead; they are recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join the business on a permanent basis. This varied and exciting role, will report into the Finance Manager and it will include the following duties:

• Maintain fully reconciled ledger control accounts and monitor cash levels.
• Support cash flow modelling for all countries and statutory companies
• Process claim and ad-hoc payments
• Reconcile claim payments with the claims department on a monthly basis
• Post bank account transactions
• Ensure invoices are filed and stored appropriately
• Maintain payments register
• Review and correct if necessary allocations on invoices
• Ensure payments are appropriately authorised in line with the approved authority limits
• Assist in completing month-end and year-end closure
• Resolve any discrepancies in an accurate and timely manner and make adjusting journal entries prior to closure
• Reconcile balance sheet and Profit & Loss (P&L) accounts on a monthly basis including bank reconciliations
• Ensure Control account reconciliations are produced on a timely basis and any outstanding items are investigated and cleared within a reasonable time
• Create necessary accruals, prepayments and other month-end journals in order to report income and commissions accurately
• Support the payroll function for all European countries
• Support the relationships with external payroll providers
• Ensure all payments are recorded and paid correctly in a timely manner
• Reconcile payroll control accounts
• Assist with payroll tax matters including annual filing of payroll and expatriate tax
• Assist with payroll audits

The ideal candidate will be AAT Qualified, PQ stopped studying or Qualified by Experience with a wealth of experience within a similar role. It is important that you are ‘hands on’ and that you have experience of doing a transactional role. You will need to have transaction experience that has grown up through the ledgers SL, PL, cashbook and payroll. You will to be a team player, be driven and enthusiasm.

To be considered for this excellent opportunity please apply online.