Accounts Assistant Croydon, England
Job description
Hybrid Working
£24K - £28K p/a + Benefits
Henry Riley are currently hiring for an Accounts Assistant to join our finance team based from our head office in Croydon.
This is a junior role within our finance department, and would suit someone with a small amount of experience in a junior accounting role, or someone with a genuine passion to start their career in an accountancy role.
We offer hybrid working at Henry Riley and the successful candidate will be allowed the freedom to carry out their work from the office and home, with the expectation of attending the office 2 days per week.
Training and Benefits
We believe in professional and personal growth and support this through training, sponsorships and apprenticeships at all stages of your career, with access to;
- Professional development training
- Flexible but structured career path
- Friendly working environment
- Open communication with Senior Management
- Competitive Salary and Benefits Packages
- Hybrid working
Duties & Responsibilities:
This is a junior role within our Finance Team. For the first 6 months of your tenure, duties will largely relate to basic tasks such as data entry and familiarising yourself with the businesses systems, procedures and software packages.
Typical duties will include:
- Ensuring that Sales invoices are issued promptly and accurately.
- Processing sales entries on clients’ electronic systems
- Produce and send monthly statements to customers
- Assist the Accounts Manager in chasing debts to maintain cash flow
- Post receipts onto the accounting system
- Process staff expenses
Suppliers and expenditure
- Entering supplier invoices, ensuring that they are correctly authorised
- Prepare payments including obtaining authorisation and posting
- Deal with supplier enquiries
- Prepare purchase orders where required
- Collate credit card receipts and process card statements and monitor expenditure
General
- Operate accounting control procedures and bring to the attention of the Accounts Manager and Finance Director any divergence from agreed procedures
- Deal with customer and supplier queries
- Assist with the preparation of budgets and other management reports
- Ensure that the electronic filing of accounts is kept up to date and consistent
- The employee shall also undertake any other duties reasonably requested by the company.
Desired Skills and Requirements
- Some basic experience in a previous accounts and finance based role
- Prior experience of using a financial database
- Finance related qualification (AAT) is desirable but not essential
- Understanding of financial administration procedures and processes.
- The ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written
- Effectively deal with sensitive queries and provide appropriate advice as required.
- Ability to deal and organise a busy workload and complex data, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy is maintained.
- Work effectively as part of a team, ensuring that targets and deadlines are achieved.
- Knowledge and experience of using Microsoft Office suite
About Henry Riley:
Investors in People accredited since 1998, Henry Riley is a privately owned international property and construction consultancy, who, for the last 130 years have been industry leaders in cost management, project management, health & safety, and digital services.
Our success isn’t solely down to our ability to be visionary, innovative, and forward thinking. But also, our people who strive to be ambitious, creative, progressive and aspire to make a difference.
Our Vision is to become a more diverse and sustainable business, so we are delighted to learn from our 2021 diversity & inclusion survey which reported we are a great place to work. Scoring above our competitors in opportunity for growth, development, and leadership.
We are dedicated to support our people with their professional growth and development as well as providing an excellent work life balance for our staff. We are a progressive business and have embraced hybrid working in recent years.
High on our agenda and key to our diversity and inclusion targets is supporting our people’s mental health and wellbeing. To help us achieve this, we have partnered with Mates in Mind who will be helping us in raising awareness of mental health within our business and the construction industry.
As a business we are working hard to actively reduce our carbon footprint and endeavour to undertake all activities in an environmentally responsible manner. Henry Riley is EcoVadis Gold accredited, putting us in the top 5% of companies for our sustainability management system.
Henry Riley LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer
