Accounts Assistant

Your new company
You will be working for a local construction business in Portsmouth who are seeking to recruit an Accounts Assistant to their small team.
Your new role

• Working with spreadsheets,
• Assisting with sales/purchase ledgers and journals
• Manage VAT payments are carried out within deadlines.
• Pay out money via BACS
• Check and reconcile supplier statements
• Uploading invoices to accounting system for payments
• Chase customer payments
• Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits
• Reconcile bank in QuickBooks as well as an awareness of monthly cashflow and P & L statements
• Submit quarterly VAT returns
• Ensure timely payments of PAYE, NI and corporation tax
• Calculating and checking to make sure payments, amounts and records are correct
• Managing petty cash transactions
• Controlling credit/cashflow and chasing debt
• Process staff expenses
• Supporting wider accounts team with any other accounting tasks necessary

What you'll need to succeed

• Full right-to-work in the UK, alongside prior experience working within a UK finance team.
• Part qualified AAT/CIMA/ACCA or QBE
• Prior experience working in a similar role

What you'll get in return

• You will earn a competitive salary of £28,000 - £30,000 per annum
• Benefits package TBC

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Jack Bailey, the specialist consultant managing this vacancy on .
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