Accounts Assistant Job Description
Accounts Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Accounts Assistant Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Accounts Assistant
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Education for Accounts Assistant
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Skills for Accounts Assistant
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Accounts Assistant Examples
Accounts Assistant Job Description
- Assisting with filing
- Day to day Admin
- Carry out reconciliations on both stock and cash
- Reporting to adhere to all regulatory requirements
- Post daily cash receipts and credit card payments
- Monitor receivable balances of assigned customers and customers flagged as being slow payers
- Intercompany Reconciliations on a monthly basis
- Preparation of EC Sales Reporting to be signed off by Finance Controller
- Preparation of VAT Reporting to be signed off by Finance Controller
- Maintenance of fixed asset register and depreciation
- Experience using PeopleSoft is desirable
- Minimum GCSE English and Maths, A Level or higher in Maths or AAT qualified
- This role requires fluent written and spoken English
- IATI qualified/ACCA part qualified
- Third level / accounting qualification
- Any financial services experience is an advantage
Accounts Assistant Job Description
- Supplier Statement reconciliation, correspondence & Actions
- Maintains and reconciles accounts payable/receivable ledger accounts
- Check Insurances
- Deal with sub-contractor applications
- Issue payments weekly and resolve any queries
- CIS returns
- PAYE and CIS payments monthly
- Coding and inputting
- Cost tranfers
- Maintain direct debits
- Early stages AAT or studier
- Previous experience (at least 6 months experience in an Accounts Payable role)
- Ability to produce and analyse relevant reports and take corrective action
- Experience using a payroll system such as MicroPay
- Assisting the business with vendor set up requests/extensions
- Weekly bank reconciliation of subsidiary company
Accounts Assistant Job Description
- Maintaining a fixed assets register and processing depreciation entries (and other appropriate accounting entries) relating to Fixed Assets
- On a Quarterly basis, in Liaison with the Management accounts team, managing the Payments and receipts between the London Branch and other Group entities in connection with profit splits
- Preparing Income and Expenditure Reports
- Preparation of month-end
- Preparation of monthly accruals/prepayments
- Reconciling manager reports with operating cost reports
- Reconciling operational system every month to the accounting system
- Review transactional postings of purchase and sales invoices daily
- Prepare bank payments in the banking system
- Must be enthusiastic and hardworking
- Settlement of intercompany balances
- Provide Operations accountant with information on a weekly basis for the cash forecast
- Review and post all expenses and reconcile expense accounts
- Takes pride in great work, prioritises workload and delivers results
- Has resilience to keep going under pressure or when working on the less satisfying parts of the role
Accounts Assistant Job Description
- Ensure collection of amounts owing
- Processing customer orders and dealing with customer queries in an efficient manner
- Carrying out monthly bank reconciliations
- Carrying out regular stock checks and reporting as appropriate
- Prepare monthly management accounts
- Analyse monthly management reports and report to management
- Assisting with production of group management accounts
- Matching delivery documents to invoices
- Checking and confirming accuracy of supplier pricing
- Answering general phone queries and ad hoc duties as required
- Sweats the small stuff' caring about the bigger picture
- Accounts Assistant experience
- Other Accounting duties, bank reconciliations
- Attention to detail with the ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to work to set deadlines under pressure and remain calm at all times
- Fluent Italian and a reasonable level of English
Accounts Assistant Job Description
- Getting authorisations on payments from department heads, acquiring receiving reports, invoices and purchase orders
- Accurate receipting process for payments
- Deal with internal & external stakeholders
- Chasing payments and setting up payment plans
- Account and bank reconciliations
- Ad-hoc tasks as required by the Finance Manager
- Client Matter Reports
- Overhead Management
- Other ad-hoc work as required within the Finance Department
- Posting bank nominal transactions
- Ability to take ownership, be proactive and achieve desired results
- Currently in an advance stage in achieving a professional accounting qualification (qualified accountants are also evaluated)
- A recent year of experience in an Accounts Payable or Accounts Assistant role
- Posting sales invoices
- Record keeping for invoice discounting
- Nominal ledger journals