Assistant Accountant

We need an Accounts Administrator to take responsibility for a wide range of duties. You will be responsible for supporting the Financial Director in the running of the accounting function for the business. The role will involve all aspects of the preparation of accounts including all transactions, preparing the trial balance and producing monthly reports including the P&L and Balance Sheet and involvement in the procurement and stock management side of the business. The role also includes preparation of the payroll, vat returns and creditor/debtor ledgers and bespoke revenue reports. This is a varied and challenging role which will be very rewarding for the right candidate.

Duties

• Sales Ledger - posting sales invoices, allocating receipts, checking POs. Chasing debtors, monthly statement submissions

• Purchase Ledger - posting purchase invoices, matching to POs, Supplier payments, checking creditor statements

• On-line electronic banking

• Month and year end reconciliations

• Management of Pleo expense cards, daily checking and chasing receipts

• Checking & filing quarterly VAT returns

• Payroll, management of personnel records via Bright HR, hours weekly reporting

• Reconciling monthly stock records

Required knowledge, skills or experience

• Ideally fully AAT qualified at a minimum with strong bookkeeping skills.

• You must be fully competent in Xero cloud accounting software (or QuickBooks)

• Ability to create pivots/lookup/bespoke reports in Excel is essential

• Experience in a similar role would be ideal as this role is integral to the smooth running of the business and the person appointed will have considerable responsibility for the accounting function

• Ability to understand & analyse the P&L, Balance Sheet

• Familiarity with reviewing t&c’s, i.e. supplier contracts

Additional Information

Location: Hebburn

Hours of work:

• Monday to Friday09:00AM - 17:30PM

Rates of pay:

• £28’000 - £30’000 per annum

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Gem Partnership Ltd who are trading as a recruitment business.