Accounts Assistant Reading, England
Job description
This is a unique opportunity to join the finance team at Blue Array, working closely with a small team, you will be providing key support and taking ownership of various aspects of the finance function from start to end, in this all encompassing role.
This post will suit someone who has worked in a finance team before and is looking to progress, either already or looking to study towards AAT, ACCA, or CIMA. We are looking for someone who is keen to learn and take on new challenges whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and professionalism with the output of their work. This will be a fulfilling and exciting role for the right person, you’ll become an integral member of Blue Array, with a culture that’s as individual, as our business model.
Your role will entail:
- Sales Ledger functions; sales invoicing & aged debtor reporting
- Purchase ledger; commission & referral calculations, sourcing missing invoices and making weekly supplier payment runs
- Manage employee expenses process end to end
- Processing daily bank transactions and weekly reconciliations
- Managing the finance mailbox
- Correlating and assisting with due diligence schedules and supporting information
- Add value and bring new ideas to the finance team to identify opportunities for improvement, create efficiencies and smooth reporting
- Assist the wider finance team with ad hoc reporting, analysis, reconciliations and other associated duties
Further to this, you will also be supporting the month end reporting process, in the following areas:
- Produce various reports and reconciliations such as bank reconciliations, aged debtors reporting.
- Update balance sheet reconciliations and make necessary journal adjustments such as prepayments and accruals where requested
The Reward
We are a people business and believe that looking after staff is our most important objective.
For this role we are offering:
- £22,000-£27,000 per annum (D.O.E)
- Generous holiday policy (23 days plus bank holidays)
- 35 hour working week
- Great office environment
- Bi- annual bonus potential
- An impressive staff incentive scheme:
- Employee assistance programme available immediately
- Your birthday off annually
- 3 charity days annually
- Free gym membership (following probation)
- Private healthcare (following probation)
- Cycle to work scheme
- A multitude of socials, including Brighton SEO
- Plenty of internal training, including access to the Blue Array Academy
Why You?
If you want to work in a supportive, collaborative environment made up of passionate individuals wanting to make a real difference, then you’ll fit right in here.
To be part of our finance team at Blue Array team you will……
- Be absolutely and infectiously passionate about finance
- Have an analytical mind set, with exceptional attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Be a confident communicator with excellent writing and speaking skills
- Have a proactive can-do attitude and willingness to learn
- Possess excellent planning and organisation skills, take direction as well as having the ability to self-manage
- Have basic IT skills
- You will be actively studying AAT / ACCA / CIMA
Why Blue Array?
Blue Array is a rapidly growing, dynamic, pure-play SEO ‘consulgency’ who are making a real noise in the market right now.
We pride ourselves on doing things slightly differently to others in our industry by providing open, honest and actionable SEO consultancy to our clients.
Regular communication and insights are a core part of our service; our high levels of client satisfaction are the primary reason we continue to grow at such a fast pace.
We work with some exciting, industry leading clients such as Simply Business, Netmums, Time Inc., Funding Circle and Photobox, and plan to double in size over the next few years. So it’s a great time to be joining us.
We are based in modern offices in central Reading, you will be working from our offices a minimum of two days per week.
If you want to be part of this amazing journey please apply now.
