Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant

Newark (Outskirts), Full Time, Permanent – c. £35,000 pa

Our market leading Client is looking to recruit a full time, permanent Assistant Accountant / Senior Finance Assistant to join their growing team.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Assistant Accountant role will be responsible for providing all financial administration to the highest standards of accuracy. Your work will help our colleagues across the business to realise the financial reward from their sales and operational, turning orders into income and that with accurate data, the board can make informed decisions around growth and investment.

• Answer all incoming enquiries to the finance team, promptly and professionally.
• Support the Financial Controller and Finance Director as deemed necessary, including with provision of finance information to assist the business.
• Preparing monthly accruals and prepayments schedules.
• Preparing and posting journals.
• Carry out periodic bank reconciliations.
• Supporting in the preparation of the monthly Management Accounts pack.
• Assisting with cash flow forecasting & budgeting.
• Maintaining the Fixed Asset Register. Post journals for additions, disposals and monthly depreciation.
• Undertaking day-to-day credit control management and collection of customer debt.
• Creating new customer and supplier accounts on Sage and PSA.
• Processing sales orders into Sage.
• Promptly raise sales invoices and applications for payments upon completion of work.
• Uploading invoices onto customer portals as required.
• Raising purchase orders in Sage.
• Credit account assessment and processing.
• Inputting supplier invoices, validating nominal coding and matching POD’s.
• Processing Bank/Cash payments & receipts onto Sage.
• Processing of Credit Card Expenses onto Excel and Sage.
• Processing payments and setting up on our online banking platform.
• Preparation and processing of Payroll.
• Processing, reconciling and filing of VAT.

• Minimum AAT level 4 or equivalent and proven recent experience working in a busy finance team. Candidates with extensive experience working within a finance department will also be considered should they not possess formal accounting qualifications.
• Experience using Sage an advantage or proven work experience on other accounting software.
• Experience in developing spreadsheet reports and dashboards is an advantage.
• Worked within the construction industry (desirable).
• Knowledge of CIS & DRC (desirable).

• Holiday entitlement of 28 (inc. statutory days), rising by 1 day per year, to a maximum of 25, following completion of 2 full years’ service.
• Annual, non-contractual bonus for meeting company targets.
• Free parking on site.
• Regular training provided.

Thank you for your interest in this vacancy and good luck with your application.