Media Organisation seeks an Accounts Assistant to join their team based in West London. The Accounts Assistant would be based within their Shared Service Centre and would suit a candidate who is enthusiastic and enjoys working in a fast paced environment.

Duties of the Accounts Assistant include:

• Processing high volume and high currency supplier invoices
• Work with production staff to resolve delivery or price variances that come up during the matching process.
• Reconciliation of supplier statements using Vlookups, following up on invoice queries and alerting S+V accountants of any areas of concern.
• Full payment run process for suppliers sending out remittances and filing invoices once paid. Includes Bacs, Chaps and international payments.
• Dealing with supplier payment queries in a professional and courteous manner by order of priority. Both on the telephone and e-mail.
• Checking, uploading and payment of all staff expenses
• Manage a set payment run for staff expenses, dealing with HR and payroll functions to ensure timely payments.
• Assist and deal with audit queries at financial half year and year-end.
• Responsible for weekly payment run.
• Liaise with the Shared Finance Centre regarding any aspect of shared finance function and queries relating to these such as purchase orders, payment queries etc.
• Posting all manual payments using double entry and journals
• Preparing the drawdown spreadsheet to calculate what cash needs to be drawn down from Production Bank Accounts. Includes Pivot table and Vlookups calculations.
• Assist the Finance team with all general finance support to productions.
• Ad hoc tasks as and when necessary.

Requirements for the Accounts Assistant include:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Proactive approach to work
• Good time management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise and manage responsibilities.
• Team player
• Approachable
• Experience of high-volume environment