Part Time Accountant

An opportunity has arisen for a qualified Accountant to work across two connected businesses on a part time basis. Ideally 10am-2pm Monday to Friday

Job Description:

• Dealing with foreign currency transactions in connection to imported goods
• Receipts and invoices
• Forecasting
• Management accounts, month end/year end
• HRMC queries
• VAT
• Liaising with suppliers/contracts and various schemes
• Purchase ledger/sales ledger/reconciliations/credit control
• Accounting function is currently outsourced to a firm of Accountants. The job holder will bring this back in-house to gain more control of this function
• Costs and budget control
• Payroll, permanent staff and sub-contractors
• Liaising with clients
• Balance and maintain accurate ledgers
• Match purchase orders with invoices
• Coordinate bank deposits and report financial results on a regular basis to management
• Monitor offer expenses and tally and enter cash receipts
• Pay vendor invoices and track bank account balances
• Develop monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss statements and balance sheets
• Prepare quarterly and monthly tax returns, along with payroll, operating and business taxes

Person Specification:

• Ideally fully qualified
• Preferably ten years’ experience of working in accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, payroll and payroll reports
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles
• Extensive experience with data entry, record keeping etc
• Experience of Xero/Sage/QuickBooks or similar plus MS Excel
• Experience in services related to payroll such as writing cheques and submitting payroll taxes
• Strong understating of business and income tax worksheets and computations
• Must have experience of foreign currencies
• Highly organised and capable person, able to liaise will at all levels
• Excellent communication skills, good customer relationship building
• Budget and forecasting
• Monthly stock reports
• Payroll (preparing information for outsourced payroll company)
• Dealing with HMRC
• All bookkeeping related queries
• Chase payments

Additional Information:

• Weybridge based
• 10-2pm Monday to Friday, some flexibility considered, however it is preferable for the jobholder to work five days a week, working for two businesses in the group.
• £20-25 per hour
• Parking
• Full benefits package