Kenneth Brian Associates are recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join an expanding finance team based in Hampton. This role will be 4 days a week.

This role offers great progression. If you are enthusiastic about taking the next step in your finance career, we encourage you to apply!

The Role:

• • Assist in recording, classifying, and maintaining financial transactions in the company's accounting software (Xero).
  • Support in the preparation and maintenance of general ledger accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
  • Invoice Processing: Generating and processing invoices for sales made or services provided, and ensuring accuracy in billing and collections.
  • Accounts Payable: Managing accounts payable by verifying and processing invoices from suppliers and vendors, reconciling statements, and preparing payments.
  • Expense Management: Recording and categorizing expenses incurred by the company, ensuring proper documentation and compliance with expense policies.
  • Data Entry and Filing: Maintaining organized and accurate financial records by inputting data into accounting software and filing documents such as invoices, receipts, and financial reports.
  • Assisting with Audits: Providing support during internal or external audits by gathering relevant financial documents, reconciling accounts, and responding to auditor inquiries.
  • Compliance: Ensuring compliance with accounting principles, standards, and regulations relevant to the industry and jurisdiction in which the company operates.
  • Getting involved in costings for projects to account for all sales and costs accumulated for project
  • Ensure Reconciling petty cash expenditure, employee expenses and corporate credit card payments compliance with all accounting and financial regulations and standards.
  • Provide support in ad-hoc financial tasks and reporting as needed.
  • Processing VAT returns
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • Handling multi-currency transactions

The Candidate:

• Highly numerate
• Excellent analytical, data and spreadsheeting skills
• The ability to communicate with non-finance people in a clear and understandable way
• Excellent system skills
• A passion for getting things right
• Good time management and the ability to work well with people in a team
• The ability to break down a complex problem into manageable chunks and deal with these