Accounts Assistant
£33,000 to £35,000 | Watford | Mon – Fri | 9am to 5:30pm | Office Based
Are you an ambitious finance professional looking to take the next step in your accounting career?
We’re recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join a successful international group in Watford, offering a salary of £33,000–£35,000 and excellent exposure across month-end, cashflow, VAT, balance sheet reconciliations and budgeting.
Working closely with the Financial Controller, this is a fantastic opportunity for someone with 2+ years’ finance experience who is currently studying towards AAT, ACCA or CIMA, good knowledge of double entry bookkeeping and wants to broaden their experience within a busy commercial finance environment.
Qualifications & Professional Experience Required
- 2 years’+ UK based experience within finance in commercial side of accounts or accounting practice (auditing firm)
- Studying towards AAT, ACCA or CIMA
- Good knowledge of double entry bookkeeping is necessary
- Good excel skills necessary
- Working with strict deadlines
- Good work ethics with enthusiasm
Roles and Responsibilities
- Assisting Weekly Cash Flow & payment run
- Monitoring the Accounts inbox
- Posting Sales & Purchase Invoices & Credit Notes onto Sage
- Monthly and Quarterly close preparations
- Ensuring Invoices/documents are authorised as per company procedures
- Checking bank statements and updating cashbooks for all currencies including the E-commerce Sales
- Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
- VAT reconciliations
- Preparing and maintaining varies excel worksheets monthly
- Assisting monthly cashflow preparation
- Assisting yearly budgeting preparation
- Assisting the Financial Controller
- Carrying out ad-hoc tasks
What’s in It for You?
- Up To £40,000 per annum (depending on qualifications & experience)
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional days holiday between Christmas and New Year if the Directors decide to close the business
- Standard working hours 9 to 5:30 - 30 min lunch = 40 hours a week
- 1-day WFH after probation and training at the company’s sole discretion (non-contractual)
- Workplace Pension Scheme
- 60% Discount on our products that we have on Ecommerce
- Sample sales 2+ times a year
- Short Leave – with pre-approval from Line Manager to take up to 2 hours off without deduction from holiday allowance
- Statutory sick pay
- Annual pay review and/or bonus at the Directors discretion
If you have all the essential requirements and are ready for your next challenge, contact Louise at 121 Personnel - [email protected]
