The Accounts Assistant is part of the finance team responsible for financial controls, reconciliations and statutory reporting across a number of entities based in the RSR Head Office located in Northampton.
Main duties:
- Ensuring timely and accurate bookkeeping and reconciliations for all entities
- Keeping all bank reconciliations up to date
- Preparing periodic cash reports
- Preparing cash forecasts and identifying where funding is required for overseas entities
- Supporting the statutory accounts and annual audit processes
- Completing statutory returns
Key Relationships:
- Accounts Payable and Commercial Finance teams
- Line and Branch Managers
Success Measures:
- Accurate accounts
- Reconciliations accurately completed on time
- Successful audit
- No deadlines missed
Experience:
- Experience of working in a Finance team
- Experience of the accurate preparation of balance sheets and their reconciliation
- Familiarity of key finance principles, legislation and standards and their application (FRS 101)
- Strong Excel skills
- Able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
- Able to produce accurate and timely information.
- Well organised and have good attention to detail.
- Ability to judge/prioritise tasks and manage the team's time.
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