Senior Accounts Assistant

About Our Client

Our Northolt building services training & assessment centre is one of the most well established and respected centres in London and the South East. We provide modern facilities in a relaxed & friendly environment.

Take a look around the centre to see where you'll be training.

Job Description

Senior Accounts Assistant Must Have

• Strong Excel skills (competent in functions such as sum, sumif, vlookups, pivot tables etc)
• Demonstrate strong systems skills
• Strong numeracy skills
• Experienced at performing bank reconciliation in accounting packages
• Experienced at processing & reconciliation on AR, AP, intercompany balances
• Experienced at petty cash and credit card processing and reconciliation
• Experienced in payroll packages and monthly FPS / PAYE year-end submissions
• Strong reconciliation skills (reconciliations including bank account, AR, AP, petty cash, intercompany)

Ideally Have

• Previous experience working with Sage 200 accounting software
• Previous experience with Sage 50 payroll or other payroll platform
• Previous experience with VAT submissions, reconciliation & payment

Accuracy of transactional processing

• Ownership of Accounts Receivable - manage and support two accounts assistants with AP processing & reconciliation
• Ownership of Accounts Payable - manage and support two accounts assistants with AR processing & reconciliation
• Responsible for ensuring bank account transactions (receipts / payments / transfers) are accurately processed and all bank accounts are reconciled
• Ownership of credit card processing and reconciliation
• Ownership of petty cash processing, reimbursement and reconciliation
• Responsible for preparation and booking of monthly intercompany charges; monthly reconciliation of intercompany balances within group
• Reconciling / checking exported data from CRM (currently V1) prior to daily import into SAGE accounting
• Dealing with accounts queries from Customer Services Team (CST)
• Responsible for timely SAGE v CRM customer accounts reconciliation
• Responsible for accurate processing & reconciliation of various merchant transactional services including Worldpay / paypal / cocoon
• Ownership pf preparation of deferred income spreadsheets for package courses
• Ownership of quarterly VAT submissions, payment and reconciliation for one legal entity
• Ownership of payroll and year-end submissions for one legal entity

Management accounting / FP&A

• Ownership of various monthly analysis spreadsheets (customer turnover and various major P&L costs)
• Ownership of fixed asset register for one legal entity
• Assist Financial Controller with preparation of monthly management accounts and annual budgets

Senior Accounts Assistant Project work

• Assist with finance team's UAT of new CRM implementation (mid 2025)

Other responsibilities

• Develop appropriate financial controls and improve financial processes across the business
• Assist Financial Controller with preparation of annual statutory accounts and corporation year-end tax work for legal entities in group
• Other adhoc work as requested

Reports to

• Financial Controller

The Successful Applicant

About You

• Detail-oriented "roll-up sleeves" attitude
• Strong communication skills
• Positive, collaborative, friendly and supportive attitude to work as a team
• Well-organised, pro-active
• Able to prioritise workload
• Commutable to Northolt

What's on Offer

25 Days Holiday Free Breakfast in the morningsPension Friendly enviroment Free parking 12 min walk from Northolt station