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Bookkeeper / Junior Accountant / Accounting Technician - Bookkeeper doddl

Nailsworth

Office based, Flexible, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Who are we?

Hello, we’re doddl. We champion parents, inventing and engineering products that solve every-day problems to make life easier, whilst offering children the best chance to fulfil their potential.
Our focus is mealtimes, and we are passionate about what we do. Why? Because we know that if our products can make life a little easier for parents, it means they can focus on enjoying the time they spend with their kids. And because we know for a child, ‘I can do it!’ is powerful, that confidence and independence are the foundation for children to achieve great things.

Our products have been recognised with the Royal Seal of Approval from King Charles III, multiple international awards, over 10,000 5-star reviews from customers and recommendations from experts across feeding, nutrition and development.

What are we like as a business?

We are a small team in UK HQ, with partners based across the world that are helping to grow doddl into a globally recognised children’s brand. At doddl, we don't accept the status quo; we seek out creative ways of doing things better. We recognise the importance of different perspectives and individual experiences and value output and impact. We are curious and knowledge hungry; we want to constantly improve, and we’re always interested in finding out more. We never give up, whatever we do, we try our hardest and we always do our best. We are ambitious and excited to be growing our team.

What’s the opportunity?

This is an exciting time to be part of our growth business in a business-critical role. You will work as an important part of a small UK HQ team and be responsible for all day-to-day financial tracking, inputting, order processing and reporting. The Senior Management Team will rely on your output and accuracy of your work to help make sense of how we are performing financially informing crucial business decisions.

What will you be doing?

Financial Management

- Overseeing financial bookkeeping for all Doddl Ltd. entities worldwide.
- Maintaining accurate chart of accounts.
- Processing orders and payments, invoices/accounts payables, income and receipts and entering data into accounting software or databases.
- Preparing financial statements showing business income and expenditure.
- Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets.
- Establishing purchasing, payment, bookkeeping and general business process policies and procedures as required.
- Maintaining subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions.
- Balancing and reconciling accounts.
- Maintaining accurate opening and closing balances.
- Verifying the accuracy of business accounts and alerting management of errors.
- Preparing or assisting with the preparation of reports for statutory compliance and tax submissions as required.
- Maintaining historical records by filing documents.
- Preparing financial reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing account information and trends.
- Complying with any statutory and legal requirements; enforce the teams’ adherence to requirements, file reports, advise management on needed actions.
- Managing transfer of funds from all relevant income sources.
- Completing payroll, as required.
- Completing VAT returns, as required.
- Managing employee expense claims.
- Assisting the Senior Management Team with administrative duties and supporting the company’s accountants in preparing yearly accounts.
- Liaising with manufacturers regarding inventory reports and invoicing.

Sales Administration

- Inventory Management reporting.
- Routinely updating key business performance reports.
- Creating ADHOC reports to support sales/marketing /operational teams as required.

Office Management

- Supporting the doddl team as required with expenses, supplies etc
- Responsibility for all office utilities and relationship with landlord including contracts and payments.

Who are you?

As a person you are highly organised with strong communication skills, be self-motivated but work seamlessly within a team. You enjoy working within processes and establishing new ones. Attention to detail and accurate data entry comes naturally to you. You will have proven bookkeeping experience, with a solid understanding of bookkeeping and accounting principles. You will have a good understanding how financial data influences business decisions and a solid grasp of revenue, GP, NP and cashflow principles. You will have a proven track record of calculating, posting, and managing accounting figures and financial records and have a demonstrative experience with spreadsheets and relevant software including MS Office.

Qualifications

You will have relevant Bookkeeping/Finance qualifications. It would be great, but not essential if you have worked with Xero and Zoho Books software, certainly an understanding of this type of software with business process would be beneficial.

Our values are important to us, so they will need to be important to you too. We care about what we do, our customers, our team and our business and the impact it has on the world. We are curious, we believe there is always a better way and we set out to find it. We are tenacious, we never give up and we find creative ways to overcome challenges. We’re a small team, so who you are as an individual really matters to us.

Please click on Apply Now and email your CV and covering letter.

Closing date for applications: 27/10/23

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 (FTE), Permanent

Hours Per Week: 24-37.5

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