Hewitson Walker

Accounts Assistant

Job Reference: JPIO1
Sector: Public Sector - Not For Profit
Job Type: Permanent
Location: London
Salary: £23000 - £26000 per annum
One of our largest charity clients based in Central London require an accounts assistant to come on board on a permanent basis. The purpose of the role is to prepare month-end account postings for UKO bank accounts, perform bank and debtors reconciliations and provide cover for the busy income team. The role is paying between 23,000-26,000 per annum and the working hours are 9-5pm from Monday to Thursday and 9-4:30pm on a Friday.

The ideal candidate will have advanced excel skills including formatting,VLookup tables,pivot tables and filtering and running the macros. A good level of reconciliation experience is also important as you will be reconciling up to 20 key bank accounts.

Main Responsibilities include:

- Maintaining cashbooks and reconciling bank statements for the main account and other head office bank accounts
- Account postings via journal entry processing
- Income postings via the batching process
- Uploading bank information into our accounting system, JD Edwards
- Auto reconciliation using our accounting system
- Investigation of unreconciled items using JDE reporting tools
- Income uploads
- Uploading bank information into our fund-raising system
- Reconciling information using the reporting tool Impromptu
- Income queries
- Working with fund-raising departments to locate income from a number of bank accounts using various reporting tools
- Correction of income postings using the fund-raising system to reallocate income to the correct income codes on the accounts system for all fund raising departments
-Liaise with banks regarding queries on accounts making use of the Online banking
- Work with the rest of the Income Team to understand and develop macros to automate processes - within the income team
- Develop procedure notes to ensure they are kept up to date and user-friendly
- Support the Income Systems Manager with other ad-hoc duties as required

Person Specification:

- Excellent bank reconciliation skills with the ability to manipulate, analyse and investigate complex data
- Excellent Excel skills including formatting, VLOOKUP tables, pivot tables, filtering and running macros etc
- Able to work unsupervised while also able to use own judgement about when required decision is outside scope of responsibility
- Effective communication skills
- Keen to use own initiative and to take on tasks to resolve issues and make improvements where possible.

Benefits:

Study support for accountancy qualifications wishing to be pursued
BUPA Healthcare
Pension scheme
Season Ticket Loan

Please apply if immediately available or on a months notice directly to jigna.patel@hewitsonwalker.com

Carlisle Staffing plc trading as Hewitson Walker. Hewitson Walker operates as an Employment Agency & Employment Business.
Consultant: Jigna Patel


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