accountant Leicester, England
Job description
GO INSPIRE are trusted to deliver improved communications performance by some of the UK’s most notable household brands in both regulated and non-regulated markets.
Our end-to-end service offering incorporates data insight and analytics, end-to-end outbound and inbound document management, creative design, commercial print, and highly personalised customer communications, across all channels.
We underpin our services with innovative technologies that allow clients to self-serve together with a passion and expertise to deliver our clients’ commercial outcomes.
For any elements not directly provided in-house, we source ‘best-in-market’ products and services from our supply chain, including consumables, alternative formats and accessible media services.
Position:
Key role is to prepare and deliver payroll and provide the necessary information to management accounts. In addition, this role will complete the expenses and credit card processes and support the finance team as required.
Requirements:
Role Objectives
- Processing of the monthly payroll for GI Solutions and Go Inspire Group, from time sheets to processing onto the bank.
- Collation and processing of overtime for office based staff.
- Completion of peripheral payroll processing, to include but not limited to pension payments, attachment of earnings orders and charity deductions.
- Completion of month end payroll journals posted to the Sage 200 management accounts.
- Reconciliation of key control accounts, to include but not limited to, PAYE, Net pay and other deductions.
- Processing of employee expense claims from receipt to payment, ensuring completeness of record keeping and VAT accounting.
- Processing of company credit cards, co-ordinating monthly returns from employees, processing of receipts and accounting for VAT.
- Completion of other annual compliance requirements, to include but not limited to p11ds and PSA returns.
- Supporting the Management Accounts team in completion of annual audit and tax computations.
- Support Go Inspire with opportunities to centralise and explore bringing payroll in for central processing.
- Providing ad hoc reporting to management
- Liaising with HMRC to resolve queries.
Other information:
Skills
- Reconciliations
- Good excel skills (including vlook up & pivots)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Organised & self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Analytical thinking – to aid reconciliations and query resolution
- Ability to use own initiative and come up with process improvements
- A pro-active approach to work and problem solving, and the ability to spot and deal with issues as they occur
- Confident with using multiple systems
- Experience within a similar role, preferably using sage payroll 50 & sage 200
