Company Bookkeeper

Responsible to: General Manager, initially working closely with the current Company Bookkeeper who will

be providing a well-planned handover over a period of 2-3 months as necessary.

Location Farnham / Guildford area

Salary £28,000 - £30,000 per annum

Purpose of role: To take ownership of day to day finance, management reporting and payroll for

a successful services company.

Hours 37.5 hour week with the possibility of reduced hours during school holiday times

Company Successful, service driven, established SME

Key Tasks:

Accounts

From a day to day perspective the successful candidate will take ownership of the entire accounts payable and accounts receivable process, dealing with any queries and disputes whilst also providing a basic credit control function, cash management and general banking duties and maintenance of KPIs.

From a month-end perspective you will prepare

• Bank reconciliations
• Intercompany accounts
• Maintain the nominal ledger (allocation of sales, direct costs and expenses, processing depreciation, accruals and pre-payments, journals, validating data, trial balance)
• VAT and Intrastat returns and other accounts reconciliations.

Also as part of the month-end pack you will collate data from Sage Accounts, Sage Payroll and other systems to maintain monthly schedules as follows:

• Future booked sales
• Key costs including salaries
• Income figures
• Basic operational KPIs

On an annual basis you will

• Assist with preparation of Company budgets.
• Prepare financial schedules to assist external accountants with end-of-year audit and accounts procedures, including stock takes.
• Liaise with external accountants as necessary.

Payroll

Take ownership of the payroll for all Company employees, including weekly and monthly paid staff, pensions, statutory and other deductions. Administer payments and maintain employee records and statutory payroll procedures.

Other

Assist with ad hoc analysis of other management information recommending improvements to processes and opportunities to do things better.

Responsible for the purchase of office supplies and some raw materials

On an ad hoc basis you may also assist managers with initiatives and negotiations to reduce costs and overheads.

Candidate specification

• Minimum 2 years' experience of a finance function of a commercial business, including payroll processing, purchase/sales ledgers and company accounts;
• Experienced in the use of Sage Line 50 and Sage Payroll, ideally within an SME environment;
• Trained to AAT and/or IAB standard;
• Commercially minded;
• Strong IT skills
• Team worker.