Assistant Accountant

Assistant Accountant - Portsmouth:

• Provide transactional support to the Finance Operations Team in maintaining and reconciling Divisional General Ledger Accounts including cash and bank, sales ledgers, purchase ledgers (and others as required);
• Preparation of daily bank summaries and issue to the business, monitoring of cash levels to ensure within agreed limits;
• Preparation of monthly cash reconciliations;
• Review and maintenance of purchase ledgers, including liaison with the SSC and taking corrective action;
• Raising of purchase ledger and bank payments for approval and authorisation;
• Review and maintenance of sales ledgers and aged debt schedules, including also sales ledger close, liaising with sales teams to identify actions required, and credit control activities;
• Raising of sales invoices, credit notes, and customer refunds for approval and authorisation;
• Ad Hoc support to the finance team and business in general as required.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Business IT Systems and associated tasks and processes to enable business functions to work at an optimum level.