Job description
A local Technology Company with links to a well- known global Franchise Retailer has a vacancy for a part time Accounts Assistant to join a young, friendly, busy team at their office in Croydon. Candidates must be detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy. There is a high volume of transactions to deal with and the ideal person will be very organised, and used to a varied role within a small/medium sized company with previous experience of Xero being beneficial.
Responsibilities and duties
- Processing purchase orders, invoices, credit notes.
- Reconciling supplier accounts/agreeing purchase ledger statements to suppliers on weekly/monthly basis and resolving issues.
- Setting up and maintaining supplier accounts.
- Maintaining and processing petty cash, credit cards, employee expenses.
- Maintaining filing system (invoices, statements).
- Recording receipts from customers and rectifying all short/ over-payments.
- Reconciling customer accounts and resolving queries.
- Reconciling retail transactions and rectifying errors.
- Communicating effectively with all other departments to meet deadlines.
- Ad-hoc reports and various administrative duties.
Personal Profile
- A positive and energetic attitude to all work, always ready for a challenge and able to work hard to produce high quality work.
- Proactive, understands what needs to be done.
- Takes initiative whilst ready to ask for help when required.
- Impeccable attention to detail, ensuring work is produced accurately and to the highest standard.
- Reliable and trustworthy.
- Complete works to deadline and communicates any issues clearly.
- Experience in working within a fast paced, pressured team.
- Maintains confidentiality at all times.
Essential skills
- Understanding of double entry bookkeeping practices.
- Excellent in English, verbal and written communication.
- Excellent numeracy skills and accurate data entry.
- Self-motivated and ability to work independently and to tight deadlines.
- IT literate.
- Confident and polite telephone manner.
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 14 - 21 per week
Salary: £9.50-£11.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Croydon, CR0 1LB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: One location
Application deadline: 24/04/2023