Assistant Accountant

Grafton Banks Finance are working with a growing commercial business with offices on the outskirts of Chichester, West Sussex to recruit an Assistant Accountant on a full-time permanent basis. Offering some flexible working and reporting into the Finance Director you will be responsible for supporting with the smooth running of the company’s finances.

Duties and Responsibilities will include:

• Account’s payable function, processing supplier invoices, arranging approval, scheduling supplier payment runs
• Dealing with supplier reconciliation's/queries promptly by telephone and email
• Process employee expense claims
• Bookkeeping activities including recording transactions in accounting system.
• Bank reconciliation's
• Ownership of month end process
• Assistance with monthly management accounts
• Processing quarterly VAT returns
• Processing monthly CIS returns
• Input monthly payroll journals.
• Providing assistance with annual statutory audit and other ad hoc inspections by reporting bodies
• Conducting ad hoc reports for the team
• General office admin tasks

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a similar job within a varied finance role. You will need to have working experience of an accounting package such as Sage, Access, or similar software alongside good working knowledge of Excel. You will need to have excellent communication skills both verbal and written and be able to multitask, work well under pressure and working with willingness, accuracy and attention to detail.

For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent benefits package alongside excellent on the job training alongside some flexible working 1 day from home 4 days in the office.