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Junior Accountant
- Posted 12 November 2019
- Salary £22000 - £26000 per annum + study support
- Location
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Accounting & Finance
- ReferenceJACM-1111_1573579437
- Contact NameCelia Matkins
Job description
Our client is a vibrant market research firm in London's West End. They are looking for someone with unfaultable attention to detail and a drive for excellence in all they do. The successful candidate will have massive energy, and will work smart and deliver quickly to meet deadlines.
The preferred profile is a bright graduate with at least one years experience in accounting.
The opportunity offers a structured path for progression, and the selected candidate will be expected to study towards the ACCA/CIMA with the support offered alongside the role.
Responsibilities
- Setting up new suppliers on Sage
- Obtaining signature authorisation for purchase invoices and credit notes
- Posting purchase invoices and credit notes and staff expenses onto Sage
- Ensuring project expenditure is in line with project budgets
- Maximising recoverability of VAT and ensuring correct VAT coding of transactions
- Reconciling supplier statements and liaising with suppliers in relation to discrepancies, payment, and any general queries
- Processing multi-currency payments to ensure all suppliers, staff expenses, etc, are paid in a timely manner
- Processing credit card expenditure on Sage
- Accounts receivable duties:
- Setting up new clients on Sage
- Raising sales invoices and credit notes
- Ensuring correct VAT coding of sales invoices and credit notes
- Allocating sales invoices and credit notes to projects
- Chasing internal account leads for purchase orders
- Credit control
- Multi-currency petty cash and incentive management
- Signing out cash
- Ensuring prompt return of receipts / respondent signature forms / cash
- Posting of cash expenditure on Sage
- Monthly reconciliations
- Multi-currency bank posting and bank reconciliations
- Maintaining Finance Mailbox under an Inbox Zero approach
- Finance filing
Requirements
- Educated to degree level with strong academics
- 1 years experience minimum
- Practical experience gained within industry preferred but not essential
- Intermediate Excel skills (pivot tables, Vlookups, sumifs)
- Self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic
- Strong communication skills
- Attention to detail & strong presentation skills
- Well organised