Accounts Assistant

Guildford

Up to £33,000

Full-Time Permanent

Office based during probationary period, thereafter possibly 1-2 days per week WFH.

Great opportunity for someone with an accounts department background to work with our clients finance team to ensure the efficient running of the department, including the firm’s purchase ledger function and some aspects of legal cashiering.

Key Responsibilities as Accounts Assistant:

• Set up new supplier and expense accounts
• Code and post invoices/expenses to nominals
• Pay invoices/expenses when due
• Complete office account bank reconciliation
• Assist Management Accountant with analysis of nominals and other reconciliations
• Deal with email and telephone queries
• Assist Legal Cashiers in regard to banking of client cheques, billing and other ad hoc tasks
• Authorisation of payments for cashiers

Key Requirements:

Essential personal qualities and attributes

• Diplomacy
• Conscientiousness
• Prioritisation skills
• Self-starter
• Self-confidence

Essential skills, knowledge and abilities

• 2-3 years purchase ledger experience and must be able to deal with a large volume of transactions
• Organisational/administrative skills
• Attention to detail
• Confident telephone manner
• Microsoft outlook/excel confident
• General IT literacy

Desirable skills, knowledge and abilities

• Purchase ledger in a legal/professional services environment
• Previous experience of Xero accounting software

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.