Bookkeeper/Accountant Ammanford, Wales
Job description
Book Keeper / Accountant
Purpose:
As the Book Keeper/Accountant, the main purpose of the job is to oversee the financial operations of our company ensuring that they are running smoothly. This includes managing budgets, preparing financial statements, analysing financial data, and providing financial guidance to the board of directors. The Booker Keeper /
Accountant is responsible for ensuring that our company complies with financial regulations and that all financial reporting is accurate and timely. Additionally, the role may involve managing a team of finance professionals and working closely with other departments to ensure that financial information is integrated into decision-making processes throughout the organisation. Overall, the Book Keeper / Accountant is a key player in ensuring the financial health and success of our company.
Process engineers
For business, mutual trust and respect are the most powerful tools for building an energetic, motivated, winning team. The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people.
We see all employees as process engineers. Our goal each day is to make one 2 second improvement. This pursuit for excellence is rooted in instinct and honed through continuous improvements. Your aim is to add value by engineering our business processes each day.
Technical Skills:
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with post-qualification experience.
- Computer Literate: Mac OS & Microsoft Office Stack
- Aptitude for timely execution of tasks and daily deadlines.
- Organised.
- Exceptional Time Management Skills.
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards and regulations.
- Experience of financial reporting and management accounts.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong IT skills, knowledge of Xero and Excel mandatory.
- A problem-solving approach to work.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise, with a proactive and hands on approach to meet deadlines.
- Attention to detail.
Character/Emotional Skills:
- Optimistic Warmth (kindness, glass is always at least half full.
- Intelligence (insatiable curiosity to learn for the sake of learning).
- Work Ethic (do something as well as it can possibly be done)
- Empathy (an awareness of, care for, and connection to how others feel and how your actions make others feel).
- Self-Awareness and Integrity (an understanding of what makes you tick and a natural inclination to be accountable for doing the right thing with honesty and superb judgment).
- Infectious Attitude to help inspire your peers.
- Charitable Assumption – assume the best in other people and develop and promote their skills by catching your peers in the act of doing the right thing not the wrong thing.
- Long Term View of Success – the philosophy that you put employees first, customers second, community third, suppliers fourth and investors fifth.
- An understanding that Trust is Greater than Fear.
- Approving Patience & Tough Love – See, acknowledge and apply gentle constant pressure to your pears.
Professional Skills:
- The ability to work quickly, calmly and efficiently under pressure during busy periods.
- The ‘excellence reflex’ – this is a natural reaction to fix something that isn’t right or improve something that could be better. The excellence reflex is rooted in instinct and upbringing, and then constantly honed through awareness, care and practise.
Values:
Lean is all about the elimination of the 8 deadly wastes:
- Over Production
- Overprocessing
- Motion
- Waiting
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Rework of Defects
- Unused Employee Potential
Important Principles:
- Lean thinkers encourage other people’s creativity and RESPECT each other.
- Lean thinkers don’t own ideas, it is always a team effort.
- Improvements are endless because waste is like gravity. It is always holding us down.
- 90% of everything we do is waste.
- Never look at the waste of others, you will always have plenty of your own.
- Lean is not about working fast, but rather working smooth.
Building a LEAN CULTURE:
- We are all Teachers - To be a teacher you must have a level of understanding that is greater than those you are teaching. Pursue that knowledge, it will help those around you.
- We have a responsibility to train each other
- Each morning starts with 3 S’ing: Sweep, Sort, Standardise.
Responsibilities:
- Be Aware – Many mistakes or issues go unaddressed because no one is even aware they have happened. If you’re not aware, you’re nowhere.
- Acknowledge issues and work towards finding a solution.
- Fulfilling the daily tasks set within the operating schedule for the work area.
- Take Action – Make positive change.
- Plan and Develop strategic teaching methods to captivate peers.
- Be Generous – Go above and beyond for customers and other staff member.
- Create a community of Raving Fans.
- Waste: Learn what waste is, see wastes, remove wastes, show improvements.
- Maintaining the accounting records for the Group.
- The production of month end management accounts, forecasting and cashflow management including reporting the analysis to directors.
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including bank reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and fixed asset schedule.
- Prepare Year End and assist with year-end accounts and queries with Accountant.
- Produce monthly KPI reports.
- Sales Ledger, invoicing, issuing statements and chasing aged debt.
- Daily processing of bank transactions and reconciliations.
- Allocate and process supplier invoices for payment.
- Set up Go Cardless DD mandates.
- Complete Customer/Supplier Registration Forms and update documentation to Shopify
- Evaluate all Account Credit application forms and discuss with Directors.
- Prepare and send staff timesheets to Payroll.
- Upload monthly pension contributions to pension provider portal.
- Prepare monthly Vat Returns reconciling to the nominal ledger and submit to HMRC.
- Managing & posting Pleo card and staff expenses.
- Raising purchase orders when required.
- Assisting with the development of systems and controls, identifying opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiencies.
- Offering advice and support, building a good rapport with other team members and external bodies.
This list is not exhaustive and should be considered a broad overview of the general accountancy required for this role. In conclusion, the Book Keeper / Accountant plays a crucial role in the financial health and future success of our company.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Flexible Language Requirement:
- English not required
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Ammanford, SA18 2LS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Accounting (required)
- bookkeeping (required)
Work Location: One location
Application deadline: 07/04/2023
Reference ID: Book Keeper / Accountant
Expected start date: 01/05/2023
