Company Accountant

Location: Sandhills

The Business & Opportunity:
Fantastic opportunity to join an established family run business, who are a market leading and reputable importing company.
They now have an opportunity for a Company Accountant / Bookkeeper to take full responsibility for their accounts function.
You will be based at their prestigious and impressive offices located on the North East side of Leeds.
Requirement:
Reporting to the Managing Director, together with regular liaison with the external accountant, you will carry out a hands-on, all-encompassing Finance role.
You will take responsibility for daily end-to-end Finance, Payroll, HMRC and Audit compliances, together with month and year-end operations. This will include....
Month End Reporting:
 
* Reviewing Balances
 
* Monthly Cash Flow tracking
 
* Reviewing Profit and Loss and Trial Balance
 
* Ensuring ledgers are clean for external accountant review.
 
* Investigating errors and creating journals when errors are identified.
Year-End/External Accountant Liaison:
 
* Ensuring Nominals for Paye, wage and pensions nominals accounts are reconciled with no discrepancies against HMRC and pension's provider portals.
 
* Final reconciliations for cashbooks (USO, EURO, GBP)
 
* Supporting the external accountant with year-end journals
Cash Handlings & Administrations:
 
* Handling daily cash and preparing banking
 
* Managing petty cash including reconciliation and replenishment
 
* Supporting general finance administration and record keeping
 
* Bank daily recompilations GBP, USD, EURO
 
* Purchasing foreign currency for business requirement and recording transactions accurately
Purchase & Sales Ledger:
 
* Posting UK supplier invoices
 
* Recording credit notes
 
* Supplier statement reconciliations
 
* Resolving supplier queries
 
* Preparing payments runs and postings for UK suppliers and international suppliers on a weekly basis
 
* Monitoring age creditors
 
* Recording differences and leasing with suppliers.
 
* Raising credit and debit notes and send to suppliers as per request by the imports department
Other:
 
* Processing weekly and monthly payroll
 
* Submitting RTI returns to HMRC
 
* Vat preparation and submission quarterly

Skills & Experience Required:

Experienced Bookkeeper.or Accountant.
Qualified to AAT Level 3 as a minimum requirement.
Likely to have worked in an SME, where you have performed a varied role.
Highly organised, self-motivated, excellent communicator and a good eye for detail.
What's On

Offer:

A competitive salary in the region of £32,000 - £37,500
Free on-site parking.
Generous Holiday allocation
Next Steps:
Interviews are to be conducted imminently, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience