Assistant Accountant - Maternity Cover

Assistant Accountant - 9 months maternity cover Located in West London, hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home £15ph - £18ph + holiday pay (pay subject to experience) To start: ASAP (ideal candidates will be either immediately available, or on a week's notice) Gleeson Recruitment Group are delighted to be supporting a very prestigious IT client in West London, who are keen to secure an experienced Assistant Accountant, to work closely with the Head of Finance to work within a 9 month maternity contract, to cover the existing Assistant Accountant who leaves at the end of October. Ideally you will be available at short notice to commence this role, to perform a hand over with the existing Assistant Account who departs for Maternity Leave at the end of October. Ideally you will be hands-on, collaborative and engaging, and be experienced within all areas of transactional finance, and be used to working within a fast-paced organisation. The successful Assistant Accountant for the maternity cover will have a very varied role that will cover: - All aspects of Accounts Payable - matching, batching and coding of invoices, and processing new suppliers onto the accounting systems - Raising and posting invoices - Responsible for all bank reconciliations daily - Maintaining all the relationships with customers and suppliers as well as internal stake-holders - Responsible for Bank reconciliations (Sterling and Euros) - Ensuring the database is daily updated with various finance related information, around invoices and payments etc - Managing the Direct Debit process - Updating weekly cash-flows with the Head of Finance - Liaising with the all of the Heads of Department, and Directors for all queries, as well as raising the correct PO's for all the departments The ideal successful Assistant Accountant will include: - Likely to have a minimum of 3-5 years of varied finance experience (or more!) - The ability to work in a small, collaborative team - Be able to multi-task at all times - Sage experience will be very advantageous (full training will be given) - Intermediate Excel also highly advantageous - The ability to work collaboratively with the non-finance and finance teams Please do get in touch for further details on this superb Assistant Accountant role, based in London, and my client is happy to move very quickly for the right candidate. GleeReading At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data