Assistant Accountant

Sewell Wallis are working with a leading Sheffield based business who are leaders in offering immigration services. Due to expansion, they're now looking to recruit for an Accounts Assistant to join their team on a permanent basis.

The ideal candidate will have experience processing sales and purchase invoices, as well as running a small payroll and reporting on management and statutory accounts.

What will you be doing?

• Checking creditor invoices for accuracy and recoverable or reverse charges VAT, posting the invoices into the ledger.
• Creating payments in the bank and tracking them to ensure they have reached the beneficiaries, liaison with the bank regarding any compliance issues.
• Producing debtor invoices and chasing payment if required.
• Collation of monthly payroll data, to send to the external payroll provider.
• Processing of travel and subsistence claims.
• Investigate any differences in third party payments in conjunction with the external payroll provider.
• Regular bank reconciliation.
• Ensuring each company's current account has enough funds to pay creditors, transferring from savings accounts as required.
• Transacting cash transfers between companies.
• Provision of monthly financial reports to partner organisations showing their case delivery, spending and advance balances.
• Support the partner organisations with ad hoc finance queries.
• Month end close down including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments.
• Monthly management accounts reporting.

What skills are we looking for?

• Proven experience (5+ years preferred) in a finance role, within a small organisation, with a variety of responsibilities.
• Experience of using small business finance ledgers (Xero preferred).
• Experience of working with multiple currencies (desirable).
• Exceptional numerical and analytical skills, including the capability to produce complex reports with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work with all levels of the organisation and external stakeholders.
• Strong time management skills, independent working and management of own workload.
• Microsoft office including the use of Excel at an intermediate level.

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working after 3 months.
• Company pension.
• Westfield health.

Send us your CV below or contact Lewis Walker for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.