Accounts Assistant
- Recruiter
- Business Monitor International
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £26,000 per annum
- Posted
- 31 May 2017
- Closes
- 28 Jun 2017
- Job Title
- Accounts Assistant
- Category
- Business Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Accounts Assistant
London
£26,000 per annum
Company background
BMI Research (BMI) is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services. For more than 30 years, our forecasts, data and analyses have been used by multinationals, governments and financial institutions to guide critical strategic, tactical and investment decisions. Clients include a majority of Global Fortune 500 companies.
Through ‘Total Analysis’ our unique, reflexive approach linking macroeconomic, industry and financial market analysis, BMI Research helps clients gain unparalleled insight across 24 industries and 200 global markets.
Job profile:
BMI is seeking an Accounts Assistant within the Group Finance team to provide purchase ledger, expenses and payment processing as part of accounts payable and various tasks related to the sales ledger. In addition the role will assist the Finance Manager and Financial Controller with ad hoc tasks as required. The Finance team has grown to 9 employees in line with the growth of BMI and provides accounting services to BMI’s other 4 international offices.
Job description:
- Coding, checking and entering supplier invoices onto SAP and obtaining approval from the relevant person/s
- Reconciliation of supplier statements and resolving supplier queries
- Sending the customer service team data on daily customer receipts into the bank account
- Upload the daily bank data onto SAP once allocations have been provided by the customer service team
- Processing of refunds to customers
- Ensure the correct coding of staff expenses, receipts are attached and that all claims are valid
- Assisting in the preparation and reconciliation of monthly prepayment & accruals schedules
- Maintaining fixed asset registers and creating asset numbers for capital expenditure
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and other month end schedules and analysis
- Processing the weekly payment runs for invoices and staff expenses for all offices
- Investigation of customer receipt queries and unallocated payments
- Clearing and reconciling the bank and expenses general ledger accounts on SAP
- Entering journals on SAP for any invoice or expense type corrections
- Weekly cheque banking
- Requesting the setup of new vendors, amending existing vendors and internal orders
- Assistance with the annual audit
- Regular or ad hoc analysis and tasks as requested by their line manager
Requirements:
- At least 2 years full-time previous experience within a Finance team in a similar role.
- Knowledge of SAP preferred or other similar accounting software systems
- Excellent Excel experience and very comfortable with managing quantities of data in spreadsheets
- Good administration and organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to self-manage and work on their own, but also able to work as part of a team
- Good communications skills Support available for working towards a qualification (eg CIMA, AAT)