Company Accountant

Company Accountant: The role involves taking full responsibility for all aspects of the company’s financial accounts and ensuring that they reflect the company’s operating practices. All financial operations, including the maintenance of full Company accounts, are carried out internally. The only requirement for external activity is the sign-off of company accounts by certified auditors. In addition to all standard activities that would be expected in relation to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, and month/year end processes, the role will also include:

 

  • Control and Administration of the Sage accounting system
  • Main point of contact with the auditors
  • Submission of all statutory returns
  • Employee Share Option Scheme
  • Employee Ownership Trust and LLP
  • Freehold/Leasehold property Asset Management
  • Management of permanent and temporary employee directors
  • Investment of cash assets
  • Purchase and Sale of Company shares
  • R & D Tax credits
  • Assistance with Management forecasts
  • Production of information for Senior Management and Board meetings

 

Whilst the Company seeks a candidate who can use existing systems and follow existing business processes, the ethos of the Company encourages individuals to suggest improvements to operations where these are to the benefit of the Company.

Office Assistant (Accounts Dept)

Office Assistant (Accounts Dept): Our client is a successful, long established business and seeks the services of a competent, reliable colleague. Responsibilities will be varied and will grow as your experience of the business grows. These could include any / all of:

• Control the petty cash including maintaining associated spreadsheet (Excel)
• Enter purchase invoices on Sage accounting system
• Produce Sales invoices for training courses within Sage
• Preparation of training facilities for courses when being run
• Book hotels and flights for staff
• Produce dividend certificates
• Complete office risk questionnaire at the beginning of each month
• Environmental Management System Data entry in spreadsheets/monitoring/meetings
• Purchase office supplies for all offices
• Provide assistance when conferences are being arranged including creating badges and information for the conference.
• Answering the phones
• Accepting deliveries
• Keeping the first aid records up to date and booking people onto courses when required
• Fire safety checks

Required:

The successful candidate will have very good attention to detail as the over-riding priority is to ensure tasks are completed correctly. There is a need to work well as part of the team as well as being able to work on your own initiative. A good working knowledge of Excel and Word is essential. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required as well as being well presented.

A car owner / driver is required due to office location.

Accounts Administrator

Accounts Administrator: Our Client is a well-established, successful, local company with an unrivalled reputation for delivering quality products and services to an enviable UK-wide clientele.

The Position:

Reporting directly to the Finance Manager, you will be working in a small, dedicated Finance Team of four.

Your duties will include:

Payroll:
Process payroll on a monthly basis using Sage50 Payroll which includes the submission to HMRC. This includes the updating of:
• New starters and leavers.
• Overtime, SSP, SPP and SMP payments.
• Sick leave adjustments.
• Pension contributions updates, both normal and salary sacrifice scheme which includes company NIC saving calculation for inclusion in employee contribution.
• Child Care Vouchers Scheme deductions.
• Cycle to Work Scheme deductions.

P11D Expenses and Benefits.
Benefit in kind for both company cars and professional fee subscriptions for Class1A NICs return. Maintain details of company car changes for staff via sending completed P46 (car) to HMRC using Sage50 Payroll submission.

Pension:
Process monthly submission to Scottish Widows GPP using web portal. Maintain monthly totals to include any changes requested by staff to personal contributions. Include new starters in timely manner to meet auto enrolment requirements. Process leavers within monthly submission.

Staff expenses:
Check month staff expense returns for viability, analyse VAT and mileage to ensure correctness and process for payment.

Accounts receivable/Accounts payable:
Annual Support and Maintenance invoicing

Processed through Intacct. Issue of annual renewal invoices using Product Service Record for amount and date order list of Customer renewal details for when to issue. Record invoice numbers on Product Service Record spreadsheet.

Pay-per-Works Quarterly Invoicing:
Produce invoices for works raised based on schedules provided by MS Team on a quarterly basis on month end June, Sept, Dec and March.

Sales Invoicing:
Processed through Intacct. Ongoing orders should be invoiced once a completed SON notification has been received through Salesforce. Exception to this is Service Packs which are invoiced on receipt of SON/PO as these are paid for in advance.

Purchase Invoices:
Process purchase invoices through Intacct as and when received. Either by direct input or, if covered by purchase order, by converting PO to invoice.

Cash Book:
Maintain cash book using daily statements uploaded from Lloyds Commercial Banking.
Reconcile movements in the account and confirm closing balance for next day.

Purchasing:
Produce purchase orders where required through Intacct. Requestor to provide relevant details using quotations or, in the case or existing customers increasing third party software, the product version and licence key etc.

Experience:

A good working knowledge of any industry accepted accounting software (Sage, Xero, Quickbooks, SAP, Navision, Adapt etc) together with strong Excel and Word is essential. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required as well as being well presented.

A car owner / driver is required due to office location.

Senior Accountant / Practice Manager

My client is looking for a senior accountant/practice manager on a part time or adhoc basis – this could be 3 days a week/ 5 mornings or whatever is mutually beneficial.

You can either be qualified or‘qualified-by-experience’ but will definitely need to have experience of
Supervising others:

Finalising/completing Accounts,
Reviewing Accounts prepared by other staff,
Liaising with HMRC and Companies House,
Using Sage Accounts, for bookkeeping work,
Using Sage Payroll,
Using IRIS for Accounts, Tax and Practice/Time/workflow Management.

Due to the location of the offices it is preferable that you have your own vehicle

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