General Purpose
To provide day-to-day operational and administrative support to the Finance Manager while assisting with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions. This role will help ensure efficient financial processing, with a particular focus on meeting month-end deadlines, delivering accurate month-end reporting, and maintaining effective communication across the finance team and wider business.
The successful candidate will have strong all-round accounting knowledge, excellent organisational skills, and prior experience working under pressure.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Month-End & Reporting
- Assist with month-end close processes to strict deadlines.
- Prepare journals, accruals and prepayments.
- Ensure all month-end schedules are completed accurately and on time.
- Assist with Fixed Asset Register to account for monthly additions, disposals, etc.
- Accounting for prepaid stock and goods in transit
- Assist with the preparation of month end sales reports, including discounts
- Inventory valuation control, including ensuring completeness of costing
Finance Operations:
- Support credit control activities and overdue debt collections to ensure they remain within tolerance.
- Assist with sales invoicing, and customer account maintenance.
- Reconcile customer accounts and allocate incoming payments.
- Investigate customer queries and payment discrepancies.
- Assist with purchase ledger processing and supplier invoice posting.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve invoice queries.
- Ensure invoices are processed accurately and within deadlines.
- Assisting with preparation of payment runs
- Calculating recharges to international offices and invoicing for these
- Assist with quarterly VAT returns, audits and statutory reporting deadlines for UK entities.
- Help improve finance processes and internal controls.
- Work closely with the Finance Manager and wider finance team to meet business deadlines.
Skills and Experience Required
- Minimum of 3+ years in a similar role.
- Proving experience working to tight deadlines.
- Experience preparing month-end reports, journals and reconciliations.
- Good understanding of AP and AR processes.
- Strong Excel skills.
- High attention to detail.
- Able to prioritise workload in a fast-paced environment.
- AAT qualified or studying.
Key Attributes
- Deadline-driven and highly organized.
- Reliable and hands-on.
- Team player with flexible approach.
- Strong communication skills.
