Assistant Accountant - Maternity Cover
Salary: c£35k plus competitive benefits package
Hours: Full time – Temp basis
Our client is a highly regarded, independent consultancy offering a range of planning and development related services. They have an opportunity for an Accounts Assistant with previous experience working in a finance environment to provide support to the Head of Finance, Billings Team and administer the Payroll/ Pensions for 15 months in their office in Soho, London.
The Role
Assisting the Head of Finance, Billings team on a day-to-day basis, to ensure the smooth running of payroll, monthly end process and financial reporting which include:
- Manage the monthly outsourced payroll. Check payroll and set up salary payments on the bank
- Administer the Company Pension platform and settle monthly payments
- Assist the Head of Finance with month end closing, bank, and balance sheet reconciliations
- Produce monthly invoice reconciliation.
- Maintain the Fixed Asset Register.
- Run month-end reports on Sage 200
- Support the Billing function – invoicing, updating, updating finance spreadsheets and client/project records and billing, cover during absence.
- Assist with the annual audit
- Set monthly Debtor Targets for the Credit Control Team.
- Sending out monthly Billing Forecasts to all teams and consolidate once returned.
- Liaise with project teams and Business support, ensuring processes are followed, completion of timesheets and ad hoc queries.
- Complete all Ad hoc financial analysis as required.
- Assisting the Finance team in other areas required.
The Person
- Experience of working in a Finance department covering Payroll and Assist with management accounts
- The role is dynamic and requires a very organised and methodical individual with passion to learn.
- Positive, hard-working attitude with a ‘can do’ attitude and ability to work as part of a team as well as able to work on own initiative and take responsibility where necessary.
- Honest and trustworthy and reliable
- Always having a professional appearance and demeanour.
- Ability to always maintain confidentiality and privacy. Handling sensitive matters diplomatically and discreetly.
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload in an environment with multiple and conflicting demands.
- Well-rounded interpersonal skills with high attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Problem solving skills.
- Time management skills.
- Excellent verbal communication skills with a good telephone manner.
- Highly self-motivated.
- IT literate and competent in using Microsoft Office; Outlook and Word. Intermediate in Excel.
- Understands and has work in accordance with the requirements of ISO9001 and ISO14001 would be desirable.
- Timesheet input software would be desirable
- Sage 200 would be desirable
- Consultancy experience would be desirable
Please get in touch with Lisa on 02085497212 or submit your CV using the link below
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