Finance Assistant
- Recruiter
- Axon Moore Group LTD
- Location
- Leeds
- Salary
- £20000 - £25000 per annum, Benefits: Excellent Benefits Package
- Posted
- 27 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 06 Mar 2017
- Ref
- GB/27730/AM
- Contact
- Georgia Bickerton
- Job Title
- Accounts Assistant
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen with a well-known brand for a Finance Assistant to join a head office finance team in Leeds City Centre. The successful candidate will join a 5-person team responsible for ensuring compliance with VAT regulations and avoiding overpayment of customs and excise duty. The team has a high profile within the wider business and the successful candidate will be required to liaise with a number of different departments including supply chain, buying, internal audit and the wider finance team.
This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join a renowned business which offers outstanding career development opportunities.
Responsibilities:
The ideal candidate will:
This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join a renowned business which offers outstanding career development opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Reconciliation of excise duty and customs duty payments
- Duty reclaims from HMRC
- Reclaim and Reconciliation of Import VAT
- Review and Reconciliation of VAT calculations for VAT return
- Completion of Intrastat returns
- Liaison with HMRC during audits
- Provide support and advice to imports and traders in resolving customs issues
The ideal candidate will:
- Have indirect tax experience OR experience of preparing VAT returns
- AAT qualification or graduate (desirable)
- Experience using SAP (desirable)
- Have excellent analytical / data analysis investigative skills
- Be a proficient user of Excel
- Be comfortable in a fast-paced culture
- Enjoy working as part of a team
- Be detail oriented in their work
- Have a strong finance background