JOB: COMPANY ACCOUNTANT / BOOKKEEPER

SALARY: 32-37.5K + GENEROUS HOLIDAYS

LOCATION: LEEDS (LS14) FREE PARKING

The Business & Opportunity:

Fantastic opportunity to join an established family run business, who are a market leading and reputable importing company.

They now have an opportunity for a Company Accountant / Bookkeeper to take full responsibility for their accounts function.

You will be based at their prestigious and impressive offices located on the North East side of Leeds.

Requirement:

Reporting to the Managing Director, together with regular liaison with the external accountant, you will carry out a hands-on, all-encompassing Finance role. 

You will take responsibility for daily end-to-end Finance, Payroll, HMRC and Audit compliances, together with month and year-end operations.

This will include....

Month End Reporting:

• Reviewing Balances
• Monthly Cash Flow tracking
• Reviewing Profit and Loss and Trial Balance
• Ensuring ledgers are clean for external accountant review.
• Investigating errors and creating journals when errors are identified.

Year-End/External Accountant Liaison:

• Ensuring Nominals for Paye, wage and pensions nominals accounts are reconciled with no discrepancies against HMRC and pension's provider portals.
• Final reconciliations for cashbooks (USO, EURO, GBP)
• Supporting the external accountant with year-end journals

Cash Handlings & Administrations:

• Handling daily cash and preparing banking
• Managing petty cash including reconciliation and replenishment
• Supporting general finance administration and record keeping
• Bank daily recompilations GBP, USD, EURO
• Purchasing foreign currency for business requirement and recording transactions accurately

Purchase & Sales Ledger:

• Posting UK supplier invoices
• Recording credit notes
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Resolving supplier queries
• Preparing payments runs and postings for UK suppliers and international suppliers on a weekly basis
• Monitoring age creditors
• Recording differences and leasing with suppliers.
• Raising credit and debit notes and send to suppliers as per request by the imports department

Other:

• Processing weekly and monthly payroll
• Submitting RTI returns to HMRC
• Vat preparation and submission quarterly

Skills & Experience Required:

• Experienced Bookkeeper or Accountant.
• Qualified to AAT Level 3 as a minimum requirement.
• Likely to have worked in an SME, where you have performed a varied role.
• Highly organised, self-motivated, excellent communicator and a good eye for detail.

What's On Offer:

• A competitive salary in the region of £32,000 - £37,500
• Free on-site parking.
• Generous Holiday allocation 

Next Steps:

• Interviews are to be conducted imminently, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.