Assistant Accountant

Investigo are working with a fast growth private equity back organisation in Central London who are looking for a hands-on Assistant Accountant to join their finance team and take responsibility for a broad range of duties.

The main focus of the role is the day to day bookkeeping which includes processing and maintaining financial records across multiple currencies, banking, keeping track of company spending and supporting monthly reporting activities.

The role will work closely with a friendly and dynamic finance team based in London and will have lots of opportunities to make a real impact within the team and the company.

Responsibilities

• Manage the accounts payable inbox, including correspondence with suppliers, so that emails are responded to quickly and effectively.

• Process invoices from verification and reconciliation through to payment, accurately and on time.

• Track and analyse invoices for accuracy and completeness on a monthly basis, highlighting inconsistencies and errors.

• Assist with tracking expenses incurred and process expense claim payments in a timely manner to make sure employee receive their payments quickly and budgets are appropriately updated.

• Input data to the accounting systems including multi-currency banking transactions, so that the system is kept up to date and accurate.

• Complete monthly journal entries and support the team to efficiently and accurately carry out month-end close.

• Carry out weekly and monthly reconciliation of bank accounts, general accruals, prepayments, highlighting inconsistencies and errors.

• Analysis of operational expenses incurred, comparing to budgets and forecasts.

• Support the team with cash flow forecasting.

• Provide support for additional ad-hoc accounting duties to help the Finance team workload.

Person Specification

• Attention to detail

• Accurate data entry skills

• Proficient in Excel

• Self-motivated

• Quick to learn

• Efficient

• Capable of working under pressure

• Bookkeeper or transactional finance experience

If this sounds like a role you would be interested to know more about, please apply with a copy of your latest CV,