REED are recruiting a Part Time Accounts Assistant for our client based in Westbourne - Please see further details below: 

The Role:

Accounts Assistant – 22 hours (HOURS are Flexible)

Office Based in Westbourne

Normal Full Time hours are: 8.30am – 5pm Monday – Thursday, 8.30am – 2pm on Friday (or 1.30pm if you don’t take lunch)  

Salary up to £28k

The Company

Multi award winning primary packaging leader with a focus on the design, development, production and decoration of stock and custom packaging for the colour cosmetics, skincare and fragrance industries.

OUTLINE OF ROLE:

Whilst guidelines for the role are detailed below, it is important to recognize that the scope and responsibility of the position will be determined, to an extent, by the skills, talent and determination of the successful candidate.

FUNCTION/OBJECTIVES

To support and assist the Finance Director to complete all finance related matters 

Role

This is a varied role and requires the candidate to have an understanding of;

AP

AR

Payroll

Management accounts

Budgeting

Reporting, analysing and managing office costs

Candidate

A person who has an accounting background and who may be progressing their accounting qualifications.

Job Description

• Control of AP to ensure the accurate reporting of costs, VAT and payments
• Processing employee expense claims, ensuring internal approval has been granted and coded correctly for reporting purposes, recovering VAT
• Credit Card processing – preparing individual files for employees to report back expenses, processing on accounting system, recovering of VAT
• Review and prepare VAT return for submission to HMRC
• Accounts Receivable – sending out statements prepared from Excel data taken from global system
• Assisting with the preparation of monthly management accounts for two companies
• Payroll preparation – monthly collection of data transferred to our payroll provider, reconciling the reports to ensure all payments and deductions are correct, paying and recovering monies to government bodies or pension companies.
• Preparing monthly reports for approval and transmission to parent company.
• Recording office costs for events to ensure within budget limits
• Assisting with the preparation of annual budgets and year-end financial statements
• Administering office duties to ensure the smooth running of the UK office

Skill Requirements

• Working towards a professional accounting qualification or an accounting background
• Payroll knowledge
• VAT
• Strong computer skills and the ability and desire to use Excel to its full benefits. You don’t NEED to have High Level EXCEL SKILLS but a willingness to learn with support and guidance.  
• Administration skills to manage and control office processes