Assistant Accountant - 6 month contract

Assistant Accountant – 6 month Contract Waterloo £33,228 pro rata Full-Time contract Hybrid after training to be agreed with Line Manager Benefits: * Pension * Life Assurance * Sick Pay * Flexible working * Team building days * Training and development support * Wellbeing support * Staff discounts * Nursery Discounts Our client is looking for an experienced and skilled Assistant Accountant to join their finance team. You will manage the banking process to ensure transactions are uploaded daily and are up to date in finance system. Key Responsibilities as Assistant Accountant: * Extract bank statements daily and prepare and upload payments and receipt transactions to finance system and appropriate databases. * Process monthly credit card transactions for all company credit cards, ensuring the clients credit card policy has been complied with. * Regularly review outstanding purchase orders and manually finish where necessary. * Setting up new account codes, project codes and live project codes when required. * Review all VAT codes entered by the Accounts Payable team to ensure correct codes have been used for exempt supply, non-business, and reverse charge VAT purchases. * Develop the use of the clients finance system to include the use of open banking and explore future potential process improvements. * To assist in the training of staff, ensuring adherence to the companies procedures and policies. * Prepare and distribute the management accounts for the clients Secondary Housing, by specified deadlines, containing narrative and variance analysis, to ensure the board and management team receive accurate and reliable information. * Maintain complete and up to date balance sheet reconciliations in the clients Secondary Housing to ensure the accounts are accurate and revenue/costs are recognised correctly. * To reconcile credit card receipts on a monthly basis. Key Requirements: * AAT Level 4 qualified or part qualified/qualified CIMA. * Previous experience in posting bank transactions as well as manual payments. * Full understanding of accruals, prepayments and the Purchase Order Process. * Knowledge and experience of computerised accounting systems, proficiency in MS Office & Excel * Xledger and First Steps (nursery databased) would be ideal, but not essential * A personal commitment to and enthusiasm for the clients purpose, values, ethos and mission. * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to establish and sustain positive relationships. * Highly organised, able to manage own workload and meet multiple deadlines. * Excellent attention to detail. * Ability to work effectively within a team. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role