Senior Accounts Assistant

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• Strong develop opportunities

About Our Client

Our Northolt building services training & assessment centre is one of the most well established and respected centres in London and the South East. We provide modern facilities in a relaxed & friendly environment.

Take a look around the centre to see where you'll be training.

Job Description

Senior Accounts Assistant

Must Have

• Strong Excel skills (competent in functions such as sum, sumif, vlookups, pivot tables etc)

• Demonstrate strong systems skills

• Strong numeracy skills

• Experienced at performing bank reconciliation in accounting packages

• Experienced at processing & reconciliation on AR, AP, intercompany balances

• Experienced at petty cash and credit card processing and reconciliation

• Experienced in payroll packages and monthly FPS/ PAYE year-end submissions

• Strong reconciliation skills (reconciliations including bank account, AR, AP, petty cash, intercompany)

Ideally Have

• Previous experience working with Sage 200 accounting software

• Previous experience with Sage 50 payroll or other payroll platform

• Previous experience with VAT submissions, reconciliation & payment

Accuracy of transactional processing

• Ownership of Accounts Receivable - manage and support two accounts assistants with AP processing & reconciliation

• Ownership of Accounts Payable - manage and support two accounts assistants with AR processing & reconciliation

• Responsible for ensuring bank account transactions (receipts/payments/transfers) are accurately processed and all bank accounts are reconciled

• Ownership of credit card processing and reconciliation

• Ownership of petty cash processing, reimbursement and reconciliation

• Responsible for preparation and booking of monthly intercompany charges; monthly reconciliation of intercompany balances within group

• Reconciling/checking exported data from CRM (currently V1) prior to daily import into SAGE accounting

• Dealing with accounts queries from Customer Services Team (CST)

• Responsible for timely SAGE v CRM customer accounts reconciliation

• Responsible for accurate processing & reconciliation of various merchant transactional services including Worldpay/paypal/cocoon

• Ownership pf preparation of deferred income spreadsheets for package courses

• Ownership of quarterly VAT submissions, payment and reconciliation for one legal entity

• Ownership of payroll and year-end submissions for one legal entity

Management accounting/FP&A

• Ownership of various monthly analysis spreadsheets (customer turnover and various major P&L costs)

• Ownership of fixed asset register for one legal entity

• Assist Financial Controller with preparation of monthly management accounts and annual budgets

Senior Accounts Assistant

Project work

• Assist with finance team's UAT of new CRM implementation (mid 2025)

Other responsibilities

• Develop appropriate financial controls and improve financial processes across the business

• Assist Financial Controller with preparation of annual statutory accounts and corporation year-end tax work for legal entities in group

• Other adhoc work as requested

Reports to

• Financial Controller

The Successful Applicant

About You

• Detail-oriented "roll-up sleeves" attitude

• Strong communication skills

• Positive, collaborative, friendly and supportive attitude to work as a team

• Well-organised, pro-active

• Able to prioritise workload

• Commutable to Northolt

What's on Offer

25 Days Holiday

Free Breakfast in the mornings

Pension

Friendly enviroment

Free parking

12 min walk from Northolt station