Accounts Assistant

Posted 18 January 2019
Salary £23000 - £25000 per annum
Location
Job type Permanent
Discipline Accounting & Finance
ReferenceATB_019_1547825565
Contact NameAshleigh Bowman

Job description

My client is a growing Media Company based in the City of London, who are looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their Finance Team. As the Accounts Assistant your role is to provide support to the Finance Team, processing the majority of the company's invoices.

Responsibilities:

  • Dealing with all purchase invoices (production and corporate)
  • 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
  • Posting nominal ledger journals
  • Aged Debtors/Creditors reconciliations
  • Dealing with requests for petty cash and foreign exchange, including posting journals.
  • Liaising with Production Accountants to ensure that production recoveries are booked monthly on the Production and the Corporate ledger
  • Ensuring Financial and Internal controls are followed
  • Assisting in the audit preparation
  • Managing the Finance e-mail inbox and auctioning all incoming e-mail as appropriate.
  • Other ad-hoc projects as needed.

Requirements:

  • Degree Educated (2:1 or above)
  • At least a year's experience in a Finance role
  • Excel Savvy
  • Keen desire for continued learning and development
  • Friendly, personable, positive approach
  • Ability to handle a high workload, maintain high levels of accuracy and personal organisation whilst delivering work to tight deadlines.
  • Ability to effectively undertake research tasks, analyse data/information, report back and effectively and accurately write up findings.
  • Ability to work effectively on own or within a project team.
  • Requires low levels of supervision to effectively carry out tasks