Temp To Perm Purchase Ledger And Accounts Assistant

Job Specification - Accounts Assistant

About my client:

They are a medium sized company based in the heart of London, providing services to buildings in around the central London area, we also provide services within the M25 radius.

My Client is a family run business where top level management are very close, ambitious but fair. They all work very well as a team and see this role as an amazing opportunity for someone that wants to advance into a career within finance and assisting in the running of a medium sized business. They all work together to provide the best service for their clients. The person that is successful in this role will need to be adaptable, have a great work ethic, organised and use their own initiative daily.

They will provide on the job training with full support from a part time Financial Controller and a finance team of 2 other staff members.

They are looking for a great addition to the team that we can help grow and become an integral part of the business.

This is ideal for those WHO WANT TO WORK IN AN OFFICE EVERY DAY MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8-5PM.

General -

Responsible for keeping the ledgers up to date. Dealing with customer queries and PO requirements, including sales and purchase requirements. First point of contact for our clients and employees. - Ideally those with a PURCHASE LEDGER AND sales ledger experience but with a slight bias to PURCHASE LEDGER.

Duties to Include -

• Processing and completing all purchase invoices through our job system and raising any queries where necessary.
• Posting credit card reconciliations.
• Dealing with Company credit card and mobile phone queries.
• Processing customer invoices and dealing with invoice queries, ensuring all sales invoices are emailed out, with correct PO numbers, updating invoices with PO's when provided.
• Processing sales invoices onto client portals where required.
• Assisting in reconciling invoice financing (RBS) account by allocating the payments onto Xero
• Sending out Monthly client statements and completing any credit control required.
• Credit checking new clients or raising proforma invoices for new clients.
• Answering and filtering telephone calls
• Responsible for monitoring Accounts mailbox - forwarding/dealing with all emails.
• Paying and reconciling employee expenses
• Completing petty cash reconciliation
• Providing cover for other team members within the department
• Assisting Financial Controller

Skills Required -

• Excel (basic knowledge)
• Outlook email
• Planning & Prioritising
• Organisation
• Computer literate
• Professional telephone manner

Skills favoured -

• Xero Accounting Software
• Clik Software
• Problem solving
• Accounting/double entry experience
• Excel (intermediate)

Working Hours - 08:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday

Situated a stones throw from Charing Cross Station. Braundton Consulting is a recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of this client.