Reporting into the Finance Controller, the Accounts Assistant will be responsible for:

• Dealing with all purchase invoices
• Ensuring all invoices are appropriately authorised
• Coding and posting of invoices/expenses into the purchase ledger
• Dealing with supplier queries and creating new supplier accounts
• Preparing payment runs
• Reconciling supplier accounts and keeping them up to date
• UK Sales invoices for production and international, including commissions and following through to collection.
• Posting nominal ledger journals
• Aged Debtors/Creditors reconciliations
• Collecting cash from Barclays (incl petty cash and foreign exchange)
• Dealing with requests for petty cash and foreign exchange, including posting journals.
• Managing and coding petty cash expenditure whilst ensuring that the journal is accurate and up to date.
• Liaising with Production Accountants to ensure that production recoveries are booked monthly on the Production and the Corporate ledger
• Reconciling bank accounts including foreign currencies
• Agreeing intercompany balances
• Ensuring Financial and Internal controls are followed
• Assisting in the audit preparation
• Ensuring that filing is done on a regular basis
• Opening & handling incoming post
• Handling and responding to general finance queries
• Managing the Finance e-mail inbox and auctioning all incoming e-mail as appropriate.
• Other ad-hoc projects as needed.

The successful candidate must:

• Be a recent Finance and Accounting Graduate with 2:1 and above
• Good A levels
• Attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• The desire to study towards an Accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA)