Accounts Assistant & Analyst
Location: Telford, please ensure that you currently reside within a commutable distance before application.
Hours: 9am until 5.30pm but needs to be flexible to meet deadlines
Wage: £27,000 minimum starting salary dependant on experience
We are a small local company that values efficiency, accuracy, strong attention to detail and a collaborative working environment. We are looking to expand on our friendly team of nine who is logical thinking, has strong numeracy, excellent multitasking experience, is detail oriented, has very good organisational skills, who can remain calm in challenging situations and is motivated to consistently meet deadlines.
We supply general Bookkeeping services in a niche Industry having clients all over the UK and USA. In addition to general bookkeeping, we also process our clients’ weekly sales reports, pay their contractors, put together other Excel based reporting, together with working with them on Break evens and Cashflow forecasting, all having to meet various weekly deadlines.
The ideal person would also have their own transport as although we are based on a busy main Telford road, we are not on a direct bus or train route.
As an Accounts Assistant your duties would include:
- Processing Supplier Invoices and Expense receipts / claims through Dext and publishing into QuickBooks.
- Making Sales invoices in QuickBooks
- Completing Bank Reconciliations in QuickBooks which can and often do include Contra payments Processing Credit Card Statements / Receipts and balancing through QuickBooks
- Checking other entries in QuickBooks that others may/will have processed to ensure that Invoices, both Sales and Purchases, have been correctly categorised and VAT has been entered correctly.
- Putting together Break evens
- Putting together and monitoring cashflows
 Accounts Assistant Requirements: Any experience and/or education requirements.
- The candidate must have all round excellent QuickBooks experience to include working with various ‘Locations’ / Departments to create multiple Profit & Loss and other reports
- Good knowledge of VAT for what can be reclaimed, and what can’t.
- Extended Excel / Cashflow / Budgeting experience is essential.
- Knowledge of Dext would be a great advantage but not a necessity as training can be given
- Enjoy working to deadlines in a fast-working environment, is also a must as we have weekly deadlines that have to be met
- Must be able to communicate with clients at all levels, have patience and have a good sense of humour.
Offering the following benefits:
- Challenging and varied career – fast moving environment.
- Good team of people to work with good sense of humour – a must.
- 28 days holiday per year, which includes the 8 Statutory Days
- Bupa Health Insurance after 12 months
Candidate may be required to attend occasional client meetings which could include a weekend but a day off in lieu would be given if weekends were involved.