Accounts Assistant

As a result of growth and expansion, a Temporary Accounts Assistant is required within the finance department of an exciting, global organisation to help support the needs of the business.

This role will be a 6-month contract and would suit a skilled individual who is good at multi-tasking and able to switch responsibilities and duties to ensure support is provided to ensure tight deadlines are met. An extensive knowledge of double entry is required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviewing coding and VAT treatment of purchase invoices in Concur and correcting where necessary
• Assisting with weekly payment run calculations, identifying vendors requiring payment
• Daily setting up of payment for operators, ensuring appropriate approvals are in place
• Liaising with other departments to ensure payments are received from clients
• Downloading and preparing daily finance reports
• Liaising with vendors to confirm bank details and deal with invoice queries
• Allocating payments to vendor invoices in Oracle & updating the payment tracker on a daily basis
• Assisting with bank reconciliation
• Reconciling the Age Creditors report & following up on past due items
• Reviewing credit card expenditure, checking VAT treatment and coding.
• Chasing card holders for missing receipts
• Handling general accounts inbox queries
• Assisting more senior members of staff, where requested
• Main systems used: Oracle, Concur, Pleo, Excel, HSBCNet, Stripe, Zoom, CampOps, Smartsheets, Outlook

Experience and Skills Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of finance experience
• Highly numerate with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
• Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines

If you have not been contacted within 5 working days, then unfortunately on this occasion your CV has not been shortlisted.