The position of Accounts Assistant reports to the Managing Director.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Accounting records

• Ensure Group bank accounts are reconciled by the 7th day of the following month.
• To maintain a rolling monthly cashflow forecast for all trade debtors and creditors, highlight any problems and liaise with the financial controller.
• Ensure that sales invoices are raised for all services provided during the month and that cost of sales are calculated correctly and matched to purchase orders raised. To prepare, control and maintain daily and weekly management reports, agreeing turnover figures to pipeline reports.
• To manage expense control accounts, ensuring that all expenses are allocated to the correct cost centre.
• Prepare journals, including cost of sales journals using stock reports and reconciling this to the Pipeline.
• Purchase invoice coding and nominal ledger posting from cashbook entries.
• Assist with scheduling and emailing major clients any approved or non approved variations.
• Assist with invoicing for the Group.
• To prepare and produce ad hoc reports as and when required.

In addition to your normal duties you may be required to undertake other duties from time to time.