Accounts Assistant

Job Title: Accounts Assistant

Location: Teddington, Surbiton, Kingston, Clapham Junction, Wimbledon, Putney, Blackfriars, London

Salary: upto £40,000 + Benefits + Hybrid Working

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Evolve Recruitment are seeking to recruit a proactive, self-motivated and experienced Accounts Assistant to join an established, dynamic company. The role will be varied and challenging; you will be required to have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail to work effectively within a busy Accounts team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the timely and accurate processing of all purchase invoices, preparation of monthly payroll (including starters, leavers, overtime, statutory payments / deductions, and adhoc payments as required). A key role within the Finance team with responsibility of supporting the finance and HR functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing Accounts Inbox for supplier invoices
• Downloading invoices and saving on system
• Check Invoices for accuracy and completeness
• Coding of Invoices on Rapport/Sage
• Input of data on Rapport/Sage
• Maintaining the Purchase Ledger
• Sending remittances to suppliers
• Review and extracting Aged Creditors report on Sage
• Preparing the Payment Run as and when required
• Bank/Credit Card Postings on Sage including required reconciliations
• Working against tight deadlines to meet business requirements
• Provide support for additional ad-hoc accounting duties to Finance Team as and when required.
• Undertake all petty cash withdrawals and reconciliations
• General ad hoc financial administration including providing support to overseas branches
• Co-ordinating payroll with the payroll provider.
• Administering the company’s benefits package (cycle to work scheme, childcare vouchers, season ticket loans, and professional subscriptions)
• Assist staff in payroll, pension and benefit queries
• Liaise with company’s pension scheme provider and manage auto-enrolment and various monthly updates 
• Coordinating with HR to ensure proper flow and maintenance of employee data.
• Recording and processing SSP, SMP, SPP, Shared Parental Pay and other statutory payments and deductions.
• Preparation and coordination of information required for submission of annual P11d’s and PSA’s
• Administration and coordination of expense cycles including verification and processing of payments
• Providing ad-hoc support to the Finance team (monthly headcount data, survey data)
• Under the direction of HR Director, prepare relevant documentation for staff annual bonus payments and salary increases
• Review UAE payroll calculations before HR Director approval
• Coordinate and work with HR Director to ensure all staff professional subscriptions are paid
• Prepare and reconcile monthly pension journals for UAE, UK and Ireland
• Input UK, Ireland and UAE Journals into Sage post payroll reconciliation

Skills & Experience:

• Excellence in communication skills, ensuring interaction and relationships with stakeholders is transparent and consistent
• The nature of the business requires a flexible attitude and proactiveness to meet the needs of a fast-paced environment.
• Methodical, with exceptional attention to detail; combined with flexibility
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, experience of using Sage an advantage as well as CRM experience

Personal Qualities & Skills required

• Proven 2 - 4 years Accounts Assistant or experience within a similar role.
• Good collaborative skills
• Ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a team
• Efficient
• Highly organised with impeccable attention to detail
• Able to multi-task
• Proactive, able to work well under pressure
• Self motivated

You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience required for this role, then please apply to Evolve Recruitment, Kingston upon Thames for more information.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.