Assistant Accountant

Kenneth Brian Associates are recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join an expanding finance team based in Hampton.

This role offers great progression. If you are enthusiastic about taking the next step in your finance career, we encourage you to apply!

The Role:

• • Assist in recording, classifying, and maintaining financial transactions in the company's accounting software (Xero).
  • Support in the preparation and maintenance of general ledger accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
  • Invoice Processing: Generating and processing invoices for sales made or services provided, and ensuring accuracy in billing and collections.
  • Accounts Payable: Managing accounts payable by verifying and processing invoices from suppliers and vendors, reconciling statements, and preparing payments.
  • Expense Management: Recording and categorizing expenses incurred by the company, ensuring proper documentation and compliance with expense policies.
  • Data Entry and Filing: Maintaining organized and accurate financial records by inputting data into accounting software and filing documents such as invoices, receipts, and financial reports.
  • Assisting with Audits: Providing support during internal or external audits by gathering relevant financial documents, reconciling accounts, and responding to auditor inquiries.
  • Compliance: Ensuring compliance with accounting principles, standards, and regulations relevant to the industry and jurisdiction in which the company operates.
  • Getting involved in costings for projects to account for all sales and costs accumulated for project
  • Ensure Reconciling petty cash expenditure, employee expenses and corporate credit card payments compliance with all accounting and financial regulations and standards.
  • Provide support in ad-hoc financial tasks and reporting as needed.
  • Processing VAT returns
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • Handling multi-currency transactions

The Candidate:

• Highly numerate
• Excellent analytical, data and spreadsheeting skills
• The ability to communicate with non-finance people in a clear and understandable way
• Excellent system skills
• A passion for getting things right
• Good time management and the ability to work well with people in a team
• The ability to break down a complex problem into manageable chunks and deal with these