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The Job
As an assistant accountant within EV, you will be responsible for maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers, cash flow and bank account management. You will provide liaison with the Financial Controller to ensure timely and accurate production of the monthly Management Accounts.
Duties & Responsibilities
Sales Ledger
- Sales invoice production & distribution
- Accounts receivable reconciliation
- Issuing customer statements
- Weekly debtor collection and aged receivables report 
Purchase Ledger
- Processing purchase invoices
- Sending remittance advices
- Accounts payable reconciliation
Cash Flow Management
- Processing supplier BACS payments twice a month
- Credit control management
- Ownership of employee expenses process
Bank Management
- Processing bank payments and receipts.
- Reconciling bank accounts at the end of every month
- Reconciling credit cards at the end of every month
- Reconciling petty cash at the end of every month
Management Accounts Preparation
- Preparation of the monthly Accruals and Prepayments Schedule, including posting journals and reconciling the balance sheet.
- Depreciation – updating the Fixed Asset Register with new additions, posting journals, and reconciling the balance sheet.
- Revenue recognition – updating the Master Income Sheet with sales invoices and ensuring revenue is recognised correctly as either deferred or accrued income, posting journals.
- Posting monthly amortisation from Goodwill and Capitalised R&D journals
- Reconciling intercompany balances Assistant Accountant 4
- Profit and Loss analysis - comparing against last period and providing commentary
- Marketing YTD spend reporting, monthly meetings with the marketing manager ensuring spend is categorised correctly
- Preparing group financial statements for management board meeting.
Other duties
- Ownership of the accounts mailbox, responding to the queries.
- Ownership of Invoicing process.
- Year-end/audit support
- Quarterly VAT returns
- Updating Airtable (cloud based) software with invoicing information.
- Continual improvement initiatives within the finance department
- Ad hoc duties as required
Qualifications
- Fully AAT qualified or equivalent
Skills and experience
- 2 years’ experience of working within an account’s office
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, including excellent Excel skills
- Experience using Xero and ideally cloud based accounts software
Personal attributes
- Absolute attention to detail
- Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to explain information in a clear and understandable way to non-finance professionals
- Strong team player, with a willingness to assist and learn from colleagues
- Drive for continual improvement in processes and systems
