Accounts Assistant

A well-established charity based locally to Herne Hill in London is seeking an Accounts Assistant to join their team on a permanent basis. The Accounts Assistant will work closely the Finance Director and have a broad exposure of the finance function across the charity.

Responsibilities include:

Accounts Payable

• Process purchase invoices through Paperless and ensure the appropriate authorizations are acquired
• Import Pelican supplier (Stock system) on a monthly basis and ensure these has been reconciled by the different department heads.
• Reconcile supplier accounts on monthly basis
• Process employee expense claims, ensuring company policy is upheld
• Process credit card expenses and perform monthly reconciliation of statements
• Process supplier & expense payments
• Bank processing and bank reconciliations

Accounting

• Review/process monthly stocktake, wastage and other stock-related journals including related understanding the variances.
• Manage accruals & prepayments including reconciliation
• Assist with completing monthly management accounts
• Complete VAT reconciliation and VAT return

Skills

• Proficient with the following programs
• Excel (Pivot, lookup functions etc.) - Required
• Sage50 - Required
• Paperless - on job training
• Collins Reservation system - on job training
• PelicanPi (ordering, stock management, supplier invoice management) - on job training
• Experience in the Accounts payable environment and certain management accounting tasks

Desirable background

• Experience of working within the Charity sector.
• Experience of hospitality sector.

Please apply to this exciting opportunity at your earliest convenience, there is also scope to start on a temporary to permanent basis if available on short notice. You will enjoy hybrid working with three days working in the office per week.