Harmonics Recruitment is currently seeking an Accounts Assistant on behalf of one of our clients. This role is initially offered on a fixed-term contract, with the successful candidate reporting directly to the Senior Financial Accountant.
Accounts Payable
- Matching Invoices to PO’s receipted into the system by stores
- Processing manual invoices not receipted into the system
- Reconciling Creditors ledger every month-end, which includes outstanding receipt listing and Edit Accrual List and posting journals to the GL
- Dealing with general queries and liaising with Purchasing to sort out price and quantity queries on invoices
- Backup for processing monthly payments run in a timely manner
- Making sure all internal control procedures are adhered to e.g. proper signatures are on all relevant documents
- Backup for reviewing and paying of all Duty Travel
- Reconciling of Petty Cash on a monthly basis
Payroll (Backup)
- Preparation of weekly payroll in a timely and efficient manner for approximately 200 employees
- Dealing with any payroll queries from employees as they arise
- Review and validate all employee duty and non-duty travel expenses against receipts before processing to the bank twice weekly
- Updating the revenue returns re employee expense as per new reporting requirements
Cycle Counting
- Be the finance lead in the weekly cycle counting process, solving any issues that may arise during the year, making sure that all the A,B and C part numbers are counted the correct number of times
Fixed Asset Register
- Maintaining and updating the Fixed Asset Register, and looking at improvements to be made to the Register
Person Specification
- An accounting technician or equivalent qualification would be desirable
- An experienced person conversant with all aspects of the accounting function including AP and GL in a multicurrency environment
- Previous experience in using a payroll system (Megapay, Sage) is desirable
- Must have very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel Highly Motivated and capable of working on own initiative
