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