Assistant Accountant

About Us

AXELOS is a joint venture, created in 2013 by the Cabinet Office on behalf of Her Majesty's Government (HMG) in the United Kingdom and Capita plc to manage, develop and grow the Global Best Practice portfolio. AXELOS boasts an already enviable track record and an unmatched portfolio of globally recognized best practice qualifications.2

Purpose:

A highly visabel opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Accountant to provide accounting support to the Finance Manager within the Finance team.

Key Responsibilities:

Support in creation and application of financial control processes:

• Ownership of the Business spend request system/ process;
  • Acting as the key Finance contact for queries/ issues around the system
  • Acting as the default Finance recipient (includes reviewing all requests submitted by the business, ensuring relevant back-up is attached)
  • Following up with approvers of spend where action is outstanding
  • Obtaining/ creating reports in the system to calculate cost accruals (to be reviewed by Finance Manager).
  • Reviewing vendor creation forms submitted by the business to ensure details are correct and complete before sending to FM for approval/SAP data team for processing
  • Ownership of the Accounts Payable (AP)/ invoicing process;
    • Ensuring all invoices are approved (by Finance and Business) in a timely manner to prevent any late/ urgent payments being made/ requested.
    • Working with Group AP to identify any beneficial reporting (from SAP) in order to assist in identifying any issues/ potential issues
    • Ensuring no duplicate invoices are processed by matching invoice to PO before approving within the system
    • Monitoring invoices without PO references and flagging this in a report to Finance Manager
    • Reviewing all invoices over the threshold limit to ensure all back-up is in place and end-to-end process has been followed by the PO requester, before forwarding on to Finance team for final approval.
    • Providing weekly update on AP status to team leads, highlighting any potential issues and measures taken to resolve current issues
    • Ownership of the Accounts Receivable (AR) process;
      • Working with the Group AR and internal teams to ensure all debt is paid on time/ action is taken to chase outstanding debt
      • Review of the weekly update report provided by Group AR, flagging any delays in payments/ action plans
      • Monitoring bank statement to ensure payments received are allocated against invoices correctly
      • Preparation of monthly invoicing files across multiple revenue streams
      • Delivering of invoices to our partners, responding to ad hoc queries where necessary.

Financial Reporting:

• Assisting with the completion of the Financial reporting pack submitted to Professional Services Division
• Expenses reporting; includes creating dashboards, measuring compliance to policies/ contractual terms, allocating expenses to budget holders and the reporting of accruals
• Cash flow reporting; includes working with the Finance Manager to forecast our future cash flow position and report this to group.

Revenue Monitoring:

• Periodic preparation of the Revenue Masterfile, analysing performance of against budgets and working with Finance Manager to produce full year forecasts
• Reporting of the current and forecasted revenue position to our internal and external stakeholders
• Producing outputs to assist the MI team in preparation of their monthly reporting pack to the leadership team
• Updating revenue trackers across product lines to review expected invoicing items

Strong involvement in the Monthly Finance Cycle:

• Key contribution to ensuring financial projections are fully validated and understood within the finance and leadership team
• Complete and timely reconciliation of Balance Sheet - to be reviewed with Finance Manager before ledger close.
• Categorising SAP ledger entries to enable current level of reporting
• Ensuring costs are booked to correct ledger accounts and cost centres
• Attending the monthly finance reviews held with team leads, taking note of actions raised and circulating these to attendees, chasing up on outstanding actions

Knowledge / Qualification Profile

• Studying towards an ACCA/ CIMA/ ACA qualification
• IT literate with strong Microsoft Excel skills.

At Capita, training and development aren't optional extras: they're how we do our job. We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary plus study and 20% bonus we also give you 23 day's holiday, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle

Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd. Services offered are those of an Employment Agency and Employment Business. Applicants will be required to register with us.

If you are successful with your application, you will need complete Capita's vetting and screening checks. This will include, but not be limited to, Reference Checks, a Criminality Check, Financial Probity Check, Sanctions Check and Media Check.