Assistant Accountant

Main Responsibilities

• To prepare, review and post month end journals (prepayments, accruals, deferred and accrued income, etc.), working closely with the finance team.
• To ensure all financial reconciliations (including balance sheet, and fundraising) are complete and accurate and any differences are resolved on a timely basis.
• To ensure VAT returns are prepared, reviewed and submitted on a quarterly basis.
• To proactively manage the sales and purchase ledgers, ensuring they are regularly maintained and up to date and all customer and supplier queries are resolved and invoices processed.
• To assist with credit control of the charity, chasing debts and ensuring no balances are older than 3 months.
• To review and prepare supplier payment runs on a monthly basis, reconciling to supplier statements.
• To assist in the preparation of the year end annual accounts and have key involvement in the annual audit.
• To meet with budget holders on a monthly basis to review actual progress to budget.

Qualifications

To be responsible for preparing the monthly management accounts for review by the Finance Director, in line with the finance timetable, ensuring information is complete and accurate.

Requirements

To oversee the day-to-day financial operations, ensuring transactions are recorded on a timely basis and in line with the Children North East policies and procedures.

Skills

To help maintain, review and improve the financial systems, processes and controls to ensure a robust financial control environment.

Benefits

To work in line with the Finance Strategy embedded in the overall Charity’s 5-Year strategy.

Pay

Salary: £29,024 to 31,856 Per Annum

Schedule

Hours: Full time