Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant
£32-£38k
Barnwood, Gloucester

My client is a rapidly expanding national distributor of flooring products.  We are looking for someone to join the small friendly team based in Gloucester. Previous experience in a similar role is essential

What’s in it for you as an Assistant Accountant?

• The main purpose of this role is to provide a high level of accounts support
• On site café, free onsite parking

 Key Tasks:

• Enter purchase invoices and credits to Xero in GBP and foreign currencies
• Run monthly Aged Payables for payment run
• Reconcile supplier statements to Xero
• Match bank payments and receipts to suppliers and customer accounts
• Reconcile bank transactions daily
• Run monthly reports on Xero for Aged Receivables
• Send monthly statements to customers
• Processing new customer account applications
• Credit control customer accounts due for payment
• Create expense claims and post to accounts
• Create a monthly customer data report for external users
• Run reports in Xero and export to Excel and manipulate to create Sales Team Commission statements
• Reconcile credit card account on Xero
• Log onto HMRC and download PVA statements for import into Xero
• Run quarterly VAT reports and submit to HMRC
• Run quarterly reports on PAYE, VAT, pension, director loan accounts and reconcile
• Use Dext Prepare to check purchase and sales invoices for subsidiary for export into Xero
• In Xero import invoices and then allocate payments and receipts
• Reconcile bank
• Run VAT report and submit VAT return
• Run monthly payroll for staff using Payroll Manager software
• Produce payroll reports and enter to Journal on Xero
• Run monthly director payroll
• Responsible for bookkeeping of small subsidiary company
• Any other ad hoc tasks

Must haves for an Assistant Accountant

• Able to write own letters and emails chasing overdue debts
• High level of verbal communication skills required to liaise with customers and suppliers
• work on own initiative and prioritise and manage workload
• High level of knowledge of Xero, Outlook and Excel
• Previous bookkeeping experience in sales ledger, purchase ledger and nominal ledger and creating journals is essential
• Create Excel spreadsheets that can capture and manipulate data
• Team player
• Strong attention to detail

Interested? Send your most up-to-date CV to Cat at i2i recruitment today!

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