Accounts Assistant

QuickBooks Accounts Assistant (IMMEDIATE START)

South West London, England
Office based in Surbiton
Permanent, full-time (Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm)

£competitive salary for the right candidate

The continued growth of our business has led to an increased demand on our finance function and we are looking for a QuickBooks Accounts Assistant who thrives on working in a high scale impactful environment. This will be an exciting opportunity for the right person to make their mark within a small motivated team.

Job Description
As part of the Finance team, you will be providing financial and administrative assistance. This is a very process driven role and therefore efficiency and accuracy are key attributes required for the daily operations.

You will be responsible for a varied remit, including, but not limited to:

• Receiving, coding and posting purchase invoices
• Liaising with suppliers and customers
• Checking and posting staff expenses
• Preparing payment runs for approval
• Processing sales orders
• Raising sales invoices
• Management of Company credit cards, including coding and posting
• Posting of bank transactions
• Weekly reconciliation of bank accounts
• Issuing customer statements
• Credit control
• General administration and office management
• Working on updating commercial dashboard and reports
• Liaising with sales and account management teams to carry out necessary responsibilities
• Update compliance spread sheets with data supplied
• Ensuring all compliance certification is correctly completed and processed to the appropriate method of recording the certificate
• The timely completion of all scanning and uploading of paperwork as required by the business

To succeed in this role it is essential that you meet the following criteria:

• Live within 1 hour commute of office location
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in both verbal and written English
• Excellent data entry/book keeping skills with at least 2 years of consecutive finance experience of working with QuickBooks online accounting software
• Great organisational skills, ability to manage own time and prioritise workloads
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy with a good understanding of accounts process
• Ability to identify process improvements
• Analytical and proactive thinking
• Positive and friendly attitude
• Excellent IT skills (Excel, Word, Outlook)