AddressWe have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Management Accountant to join our Finance team, within an operational function. This role is responsible for financial record keeping and payment processing, using specialised ledgers and systems to record and process expenditure, and other financial transactions.
In this role you will be working alongside the Accounting Manager supporting them with company projects and a variety of tasks to ensure the accounting processes are adhered to and completed on-time. This role acts as a first point of contact for general queries, credit control and supplier management, as well as employee expenses processing and policies.
The successful candidate should work well using their own initiative and be confident in working with multiple systems and liaising with company stakeholders. The position would suit an individual qualified by experience or part-qualified/working towards their AAT, though this is not essential.
Reporting to: Accounting Manager.
Responsibilities:
- Daily monitoring of departmental inboxes and business bank accounts
- Reconciling and posting receipts and payments into and between a variety of bank accounts.
- Managing PO and invoice reconciliation process.
- Maintaining company credit cards and reconciliation of company credit card transactions and statements.
- Maintaining a database of Accounts supplier contracts.
- Updating exchange rates in accounts system.
- Contributing towards month-end and year-end accounting tasks; such as bank reconciliations, reconciliation of domestic and foreign petty cash and journals.
- Supporting with the annual external Accounts and Quality departmental audits.
- Contacting and responding to suppliers and customers.
- Delivering Accounts and Quality training to staff as required.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Processing BACS/Wire payment runs.
- Contributing towards multi-company month-end and year-end accounting tasks; such as analysing expense variations and VAT returns.
- Completing the annual credit check on resellers and comparing future reports and trends.
- Calculating monthly incentive payments due and liaising with Spanish and Italian payroll.
- Producing monthly and annual financial statements.
- Responsible for ensuring legal compliance in Accounts and Quality, including coordination of the department.
- Supporting the Operations Manager as required.
Qualifications:
- Qualified by experience or part-qualified/working towards full AAT.
- Highly organised and detail orientated - able to prioritise workload, complete multiple tasks to tight deadlines and work under pressure.
- Self-motivated and a proactive approach to all tasks. Able to use own initiative.
- Confidentiality; able to keep sensitive business and personnel matters private.
- Perceptive, with the ability to apply judgement, common sense and find practical solutions.
- Excellent IT skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Energy, enthusiasm and a can-do attitude.
- A good level of numeracy and a high degree of attention to detail will be required.
This role offers hybrid remote. Office:Home / 60:40
Contract length: Contract until 31st January 2025.
Salary: £29,000-£32,000 per annum, depending on experience.
Wolfram is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at its company.
About Us:
Wolfram Research is one of the world’s most respected software companies. We are pioneers in computation and modern data science and we pursue a long-term vision to research and develop the tools to make computation an ever-more potent force in today’s and tomorrow’s world. Our products include the Wolfram Language, Wolfram|Alpha Knowledge Engine (available through Siri) and Mathematica. We are a growing presence in offering technical services and consulting.
The European Headquarters is based in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside, offering a collaborative working environment, with a number of onsite perks. With approximately 35 people based in the UK and Europe, we’re looking for a Customer Support Representative to help drive our goals for growth and to help deliver the high level of customer support we provide.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 13 months
Salary: £29,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Witney: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Witney
