Assistant Accountant

Signature has an excellent opportunity to join our client, a social investment company, as an Assistant Accountant! This role will be on a full time, temporary basis, and is flexible on the working location.

The successful Assistant Accountant will report to the Financial Controller and will play an important part in supporting the finance team to deliver on the company’s new strategy and focus. You will have an excellent attention to detail, strong organisation skills and the ability to multitask. If this fits your skills, please read on!

Assistant Accountant Main Responsibilities:

• Prepare for and make weekly payments to grantees, investees, employees and suppliers following laid down procedures.
• Entering invoices into Receipt Bank/Xero, checking that coding and budget data is correct.
• Matching Invoices to purchase orders and ensuring invoices are uploaded with correct authorisations.
• Responsible for timely payments of supplier invoices and managing payment issues that arise with suppliers including entering/uploading payment template data in Barclays ready for approval.
• Responsible for credit card reconciliations.
• Responsible for ensuring that, by month end, all bank reconciliations are completed for all 5 entities, required for Management accountants to run loan and grant reports.
• Preparing the monthly Cash Analysis Report.
• Maintaining the upkeep of all bank accounts and loan repayments against Singlify to ensure that all cash management transactions are correctly recorded.
• To upload/import payments for approval when grants and loan disbursement requests are required. And upload/import and arrange direct debit collections for investees on a monthly basis.
• Monitoring and maintaining shared finance (payable) mailboxes.

Assistant Accountant Essential Skills and Experience:

• Basic finance/accounting experience.
• Understanding and experience of Xero accounting software.
• Excellent IT skills, including Excel.
• Excellent attention to detail and data entry skills.
• Ability to multi-task, work flexibly and willingness to learn new skills.
• Relationship skills, external and internal customer focused.
• Resilience and ability to work under pressure.

If you are professional, well-presented and have the relevant skills please send your CV through today!

Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, occasionally due to the high volume of applications this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification within 7 days unfortunately your application may not have been successful this time but we will keep your details on file and may contact you with future opportunities.

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