Finance & Accounts Support Officer-UK Market

Purpose

Runs the client's day-to-day transactional finance — purchase and sales ledger, bank reconciliations and month-end support — inside the client's own accounting system.

What the role does

•    Processes supplier invoices, matches them to purchase orders and prepares payment runs.

•    Raises sales invoices, allocates receipts and chases overdue accounts.

•    Reconciles bank, control and supplier accounts and clears reconciling items.

•    Prepares month-end schedules — accruals, prepayments, fixed asset movements.

•    Maintains the fixed asset register and the expense claim process.

•    Produces the agreed weekly and monthly finance reports and flags anything that looks wrong.

Essential

•    Degree in accounting or finance, or part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or CA(Z).

•    Two years in a bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable or general ledger role.

•    Working knowledge of at least one accounting package — Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, Palladium, NetSuite or Dynamics.

•    Excel to lookup and pivot table standard.

•    Numerate and accurate under volume — arithmetic checked and correct first time.

•    Understands double entry well enough to explain a posting, not just make it.

Desirable

•    Exposure to UK VAT, PAYE or Companies House filing requirements.

•    Experience of a multi-currency ledger.

•    Used to working to a month-end timetable with a hard close date.

•    Power Query, or macro-level Excel.