AAT Accounts Assistant
Description✓AAT Qualified Accounts Assistant required by well-established growing business**
✓**Dorking**£32,000-£37,000**
✓Job Description:
✓Ensuring the Accounts Assistant is performing all daily transactional tasks in a timely and accurate manner.
✓These include bank reconciliations, purchase invoice processing, sales invoicing, credit collection and twice-monthly payment run in the event of excess workload, holidays or sickness, to cover the Accounts Assistant role to ensure the smooth running of the business
✓Manage the accounts inbox alongside the Accounts Assistant.
✓Prepare monthly flash sales report for the Management accountant
✓Support the management accountant with the monthly management accounts
✓Examples include but are not limited to, prepayments, accruals, exchange rates, packaging accrual as well as running reports
✓Update Filemaker [current Database] with exchange rates
✓Foreign bank revaluation
✓Running aged debtors and creditors report and liaising with accounts assistant for commentary.
✓Prepare NL journals to account for timing issues between sales invoicing and related purchase invoicing [ACCPREP]
✓Coding of storage costs to customers/projects where appropriate and where efficient to do so
✓Release Storage costs from General Storage Control account to ensure that unallocated storage costs are booked in the correct period in Direct Costs
✓Building good relationships with the whole of the Customer Service team to endure smooth and efficient interdepartmental business processes.
✓Preparing and distributing the cash requirements spreadsheet detailing estimated future shortfalls and surpluses by currency
✓Alerting HoF of any currency exposures
✓Assisting HoF and CEO in decision making regarding hedging requirements based on the cash forecasting sheet.
✓Examples to include, personal expense control accounts, prepayments and accruals, Vat as required.
✓Due to the business growth, the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics will be in Autumn 2023.
✓The Senior Accounts Assistant will need to actively participate in training
✓To use the test environment in advance of go-live to become more familiar
✓To be a pivotal part of the go-live process in the weeks leading up to launch and working with HoF and the rest of the team with transitioning into the new system from Sage.
✓Ad hoc duties when required.
✓Person Specification:
✓* AAT qualified
✓* Experience in working in a good related industry essential
✓* At least 5 years’ experience having used Finance/Accounting systems/CRMs; use of Microsoft Dynamics preferable
✓* Supportive supervisory skills with experience in accounts payable and receivable
✓* Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail
✓* Must have the ability to multi-task & to maintain focus in a busy office environment
✓* Ability to thrive in a close-knit team and busy environment and bring a positive and calm frame off mind to all they do
✓* Team player
✓* Strong Microsoft Excel skills
✓* Strong verbal and written interpersonal skills
✓Additional Information:
✓* Dorking, office based
✓* Monday to Friday, 9-5pm
✓* £32,000 - £37,000
✓* 25 days holiday
✓* Parking after 3 months
✓Refer a friend and earn £100! If you have a friend who is also searching for a new opportunity in the local area, recommend Optima and if we place them [providing they complete their 3-month probation period], you will receive a £100 retail voucher of your choice!
✓Please note that if you have not been contacted within 5 working days, then unfortunately on this occasion your CV has not been shortlisted.
✓By applying for this vacancy, you accept Optima Recruitment Limited’s Privacy and GDPR Policy which can be found on our website and therefore gives us consent to contact you.
✓Optima Recruitment Limited are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy and are an equal opportunities employer Show more →
✓**Dorking**£32,000-£37,000**
✓Job Description:
✓Ensuring the Accounts Assistant is performing all daily transactional tasks in a timely and accurate manner.
✓These include bank reconciliations, purchase invoice processing, sales invoicing, credit collection and twice-monthly payment run in the event of excess workload, holidays or sickness, to cover the Accounts Assistant role to ensure the smooth running of the business
✓Manage the accounts inbox alongside the Accounts Assistant.
✓Prepare monthly flash sales report for the Management accountant
✓Support the management accountant with the monthly management accounts
✓Examples include but are not limited to, prepayments, accruals, exchange rates, packaging accrual as well as running reports
✓Update Filemaker [current Database] with exchange rates
✓Foreign bank revaluation
✓Running aged debtors and creditors report and liaising with accounts assistant for commentary.
✓Prepare NL journals to account for timing issues between sales invoicing and related purchase invoicing [ACCPREP]
✓Coding of storage costs to customers/projects where appropriate and where efficient to do so
✓Release Storage costs from General Storage Control account to ensure that unallocated storage costs are booked in the correct period in Direct Costs
✓Building good relationships with the whole of the Customer Service team to endure smooth and efficient interdepartmental business processes.
✓Preparing and distributing the cash requirements spreadsheet detailing estimated future shortfalls and surpluses by currency
✓Alerting HoF of any currency exposures
✓Assisting HoF and CEO in decision making regarding hedging requirements based on the cash forecasting sheet.
✓Examples to include, personal expense control accounts, prepayments and accruals, Vat as required.
✓Due to the business growth, the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics will be in Autumn 2023.
✓The Senior Accounts Assistant will need to actively participate in training
✓To use the test environment in advance of go-live to become more familiar
✓To be a pivotal part of the go-live process in the weeks leading up to launch and working with HoF and the rest of the team with transitioning into the new system from Sage.
✓Ad hoc duties when required.
✓Person Specification:
✓* AAT qualified
✓* Experience in working in a good related industry essential
✓* At least 5 years’ experience having used Finance/Accounting systems/CRMs; use of Microsoft Dynamics preferable
✓* Supportive supervisory skills with experience in accounts payable and receivable
✓* Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail
✓* Must have the ability to multi-task & to maintain focus in a busy office environment
✓* Ability to thrive in a close-knit team and busy environment and bring a positive and calm frame off mind to all they do
✓* Team player
✓* Strong Microsoft Excel skills
✓* Strong verbal and written interpersonal skills
✓Additional Information:
✓* Dorking, office based
✓* Monday to Friday, 9-5pm
✓* £32,000 - £37,000
✓* 25 days holiday
✓* Parking after 3 months
✓Refer a friend and earn £100! If you have a friend who is also searching for a new opportunity in the local area, recommend Optima and if we place them [providing they complete their 3-month probation period], you will receive a £100 retail voucher of your choice!
✓Please note that if you have not been contacted within 5 working days, then unfortunately on this occasion your CV has not been shortlisted.
✓By applying for this vacancy, you accept Optima Recruitment Limited’s Privacy and GDPR Policy which can be found on our website and therefore gives us consent to contact you.
✓Optima Recruitment Limited are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy and are an equal opportunities employer Show more →