Assistant Accountant

Title: Assistant Accountant

Company Description: A unique affordable women’s fashion brand

Location: London

Salary:£35000 - £40000

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Accountant to join a small Finance team. To be considered for this position you will have previous experience as an Assistant Accountant and working in Sales Ledger/Purchase Ledger.

Responsibilities:

• Keep company ledgers and daily financial transactions up to date

• Tracking and recording all incoming payments from customers

• Following up on unpaid invoices and late payments

• Generating and sending invoices to customers

• Cash reconciliations and resolving discrepancies, including shop cash receipts

• Credit control, as required on the sales ledger

• Posting and coding purchase invoices to Sage

• Posting and coding credit card statements to Sage

• Posting and coding monthly staff expenses

• Maintain and post monthly petty cash

• Maintain sales and purchase ledger

• Setting up weekly, monthly and ad-hoc payments runs

• Distribution of supplier invoices for authorisation to the relevant departments

• Prepare weekly and monthly supplier statement reconciliations

• Identify discrepancies in ledgers and accounts, track them to the source, and correct them.

• Assist with the weekly cashflow and monthly management reporting

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years in bookkeeping or accounting roles

• Intermediate user of MS Excel

• Excellent attention to detail with high levels of accuracy

• Resilient and able to work at pace

• Demonstrable working knowledge of Sage 200

• Analytical and organised

• Enjoys working in flat, informal structures

• Able to confidently communicate across all levels, including Directors