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Assistant Accountant - Maternity Cover - 6 months

Gleeson Recruitment Group
Posted 20 hours ago, valid for 21 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£34,000 - £38,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Assistant Accountant position is a 6-month maternity cover role located in West London with hybrid working arrangements, requiring 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
  • The salary for this role ranges from £34,000 to £38,000, depending on experience, and includes benefits such as 25 days of holiday and a pension plan.
  • Candidates should have a minimum of 3-5 years of varied finance experience and be available to start as soon as possible, ideally with 1-2 weeks' notice.
  • The role involves managing all aspects of accounts payable and receivable, daily bank reconciliations, and liaising with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
  • Experience with Sage and intermediate Excel skills are highly advantageous, and the ideal candidate should be hands-on, collaborative, and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Assistant Accountant - 6 months maternity cover

Located in West London, hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

£34,000 - £38,000 (Depending on experience) + 25 days holiday, pension

To start: ASAP (ideal candidates will be either immediately available, or 1-2 week's notice)

Gleeson Recruitment Group are delighted to be supporting a very prestigious Tech client in West London, who are keen to secure an experienced Assistant Accountant, to work closely with the Head of Finance to work within a 6 month maternity contract, to cover the existing Assistant Accountant who leaves at the end of October.

Ideally you will be available at short notice to commence this role, to perform a hand over with the existing Assistant Account who departs for Maternity Leave at the end of October. Ideally you will be hands-on, collaborative and engaging, and be experienced within all areas of transactional finance, and be used to working within a fast-paced organisation.

The successful Assistant Accountant for the maternity cover will have a very varied role that will cover:

- Responsible for all aspects of AP and AR

- All aspects of Accounts Payable - matching, batching and coding of invoices, and processing new suppliers onto the accounting systems

- Raising and posting invoices

- Responsible for all bank reconciliations daily

- Maintaining all the relationships with customers and suppliers as well as internal stake-holders

- Responsible for Bank reconciliations (Sterling and Euros)

- Ensuring the database is daily updated with various finance related information, around invoices and payments etc

- Managing the Direct Debit process

- Updating weekly cash-flows with the Head of Finance

- Liaising with the all of the Heads of Department, and Directors for all queries, as well as raising the correct PO's for all the departments

The ideal successful Assistant Accountant will include:

- Likely to have a minimum of 3-5 years of varied finance experience (or more!)

- The ability to work in a small, collaborative team

- Be able to multi-task at all times

- Sage experience will be very advantageous (full training will be given)

- Intermediate Excel also highly advantageous

- The ability to work collaboratively with the non-finance and finance teams

Please do get in touch for further details on this superb Assistant Accountant role, based in London, and my client is happy to move very quickly for the right candidate.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.