Accounts Assistant - West London
Salary: £21k ‐ £25k (depending on experience) – Immediate Start.
Professional Language Solutions is an accredited and very well-established training company, recently relocated to Hammersmith, West London. We provide a wide range of language and communication skills training to international corporations and government departments. Clients include household names from Oil and Gas, Finance, Law, Defence, Pharma etc, and our training takes place across the UK and in many international locations.
Due to a restructuring of the Finance department, we now have two positions available in our London office– one working within the client management team directly, and one in the accounts department.
Requirements:
We are looking for hard‐working and enthusiastic individuals who will be reliable, and comfortable liaising closely with a small and very experienced team of client managers.
Knowledge of Sage is desirable, and basic command of excel is required. Most importantly, candidates must be conscientious, precise in their work, and able to meet strict deadlines imposed by our clients. A “can-do” attitude is essential.
Please send an email, attaching Curriculum Vitae, to arrive no later than 7th November 2022, to the Managing Director, Crispin Tucker
Hours of work : 9am to 5.30, Mon-Fri
Holidays : 25 days per annum
Responsibilities:
Sales and Purchase Ledger
• Sales ledger ‐ posting of sales invoices in a timely manner
• Purchase ledger ‐ obtain authorisation for all purchase invoices and make posting.
• Where any discrepancies arise with sales and purchase invoices, raise this with the Financial Accountant to find a timely resolution.
• Nominal ledger ‐ process payment runs to suppliers based on invoices approved for payment
• Prepare separate debtors report for a specific client.
Database
• Invoice generation
• Generate sales comparison report monthly
• Generate clients attendance report monthly
• Generate work in progress report annually
• Informing and advising on excess approved block of hours
Payments and Treasury
• Responsibility for petty cash
• Banking of cheques and cash received.
• Reconciliation of credit card statements.
• Reconcile creditors statements with purchase ledger and resolve discrepancies
• Cardstream reconciliation
Monthly and Year‐end Accounts
• Preparing the monthly bank reconciliation.
• Assist the Financial Accountant in preparing the year‐end audit
Credit Control
• Regularly review debtors with the Financial Accountant
Payroll
• Prepare and apply changes to payroll file each month
Office Management
• Answer incoming calls to the company in a friendly and professional manner.
• Any other duties as required to maintain a safe, clean and happy office environment.