Payroll Accountant

Our client is a global professional services firm based in Central London. They have recently opened a few new US offices and due to growth in the business have decided to bring their internal staff payroll function in house.

They are looking for someone to come in and own that process, alongside some accounting duties to support the month end processes.

This role will be suited to someone who is process driven, and enjoys a fast paced, high energy environment.

Duties include;

• Completing weekly bank reconciliations
• Performing bank revaluation at month end
• Reconciling and replenishing petty cash accounts
• Updating exchange rates on systems
• Auditing and paying staff expenses on a weekly basis
• Posting the journals onto the accounting package and reconciling to the control account
• Administration of system and day-to-say support for claimants
• Extraction of travel invoices and usage reports
• Administration of the system and day-to-say support for travellers
• Journal adjustments for initial lead cost centre
• Extracting monthly credit card statements uploading for cardholders
• Auditing, collating and sending claims for payment
• Posting of journal onto accounting package and reconciling to control account
• Coding and inputting Purchase Ledger invoices into System
• Sending invoices for approval and reporting the managers
• Managing the Aged creditor reports and statement reconciliations
• Completing weekly payment runs to suppliers
• Setting up new suppliers
• Month end processes, accruals, reconciliation and ledger closures