Assistant Accountant (12 Month Contract)

Our client a highly successful International business with operations all over the world are currently recruiting for an Assistant Accountant on a 12 Month Maternity Contract, based from Farnborough, Hampshire.

Client Details

Our client a highly successful International business with operations all over the world are currently recruiting for an Assistant Accountant on a 12 Month Maternity Contract, based from Farnborough, Hampshire.

Description

As the Assistant Accountant based from Farnborough, Hampshire you will be responsible for:

Key Responsibilities:

Bank reconciliations

• Reconciling three bank accounts, including foreign currency accounts.
• Processing transactions, both payments and customer receipts.
• Processing intercompany transactions in both companies affected.

Management of Key Customer issues

• Raising, tracking and concluding resolution requests
• Cross function communications

Credit control

• Reviewing sales ledger and chasing outstanding debt due from external customers.
• Liaising with Customer Services to resolve queries
• Liaising with Sales to ensure credit limits are not breached.

Manage prepayment accounts within company Balance Sheet

Support of Month-end Process - journals, ad hoc tasks as required

Fixed Asset Management

• Maintenance of FMIS software including additions and disposals
• Post monthly depreciation journal
• Reporting on spend per Capital Request.
• Support to audit process

Profile

• Experience in a similar varied finance role
• Strong Excel skills

• Experience with foreign currencies and exchange rates would be beneficial not essential
• Proactive and able to work unsupervised, and as part of a team
• Able to demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness
• Comfortable dealing with non-finance professionals of all levels

Job Offer

Salary £28,000 - £35,000 depending on experience

25 days holiday

Pension

Reward gateway scheme

Early finish on a Friday