Assistant Accountant

Halliday Marx have partnered exclusively with an outstanding creative, independent software company who seek a new key member of the finance team.

This is a world leader in web technology for financial trading with award-winning software for many of the world's largest banks and other financial institutions.

Hybrid role (2-3 days per week in the office)

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the role and will have broad finance responsibilities within a small finance team.

The role:

• Processing and reviewing all purchase invoices, including general ledger coding and comparison against budget. Liaising with suppliers and internal stakeholders, resolving queries.
• Preparation of bank payment runs for review.
• Processing and reviewing all receipts and purchase invoices relating to company credit cards.
• Reviewing employee expense claims
• Cash management including reconciliation and allocation of bank receipts and payments.
• Preparing the monthly bank reconciliations for all bank accounts, including accounting for the foreign exchange translation at month end.
• Preparation of certain monthly balance sheet reconciliations (e.g. prepayments and accruals).
• Assisting in the preparation of monthly management and board reports
• Finance Manager cover for higher level finance tasks
• Other ad hoc tasks.

You will have:

• Minimum 1 year prior experience working in a small finance team
• Attention to detail is essential
• (Ideally) Experience of working with Xero
• Studying towards ACA/ACCA/CIMA