Accounts Assistant

Harmonics Recruitment are currently seeking an Accounts Assistant to join their team initially on a Fixed Term Contract. You will be reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant

Accounts Payable

• Matching Invoices to POs receipted into the system by stores.
• Processing manual invoices not receipted into the system.
• Reconciling Creditors ledger every month-end, which includes outstanding receipt listing and Edit Accrual List and posting journals to the GL.
• Dealing with general queries and liaising with Purchasing to sort out price and quantity queries on invoices.
• Backup for processing monthly payments run in a timely manner.
• Making sure all internal control procedures are adhered to e.g. proper signatures are on all relevant documents.
• Backup for reviewing and paying of all Duty Travel.
• Reconciling of Petty Cash on a monthly basis.

Payroll (Backup)

• Preparation of weekly payroll in a timely and efficient manner for approximately 200 employees
• Dealing with any payroll queries from employees as they arise.
• Review and validate all employee duty and non-duty travel expenses against receipts before processing to the bank twice weekly.
• Updating the revenue returns re employee expense as per new reporting requirements.

Cycle Counting.

• Be the finance lead in the weekly cycle counting process, solving any issues that may arise during the year, making sure that all the A,B and C part numbers are counted the correct number of times.

Fixed Asset Register

• Maintaining and updating the Fixed Asset Register, and looking at improvements to be made to the Register.

Person Specification

• An accounting technician or equivalent qualification would be desirable.
• An experienced person conversant with all aspects of the accounting function including AP and GL in a multicurrency environment
• Previous experience in using a payroll system (Megapay, Sage) is desirable
• Must have very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel Highly Motivated and capable of working on own initiative

Skills:
Payroll, Account