Accounts Assistant / Bookkeeper APPLY NOW

About the job

About the opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join our lovely head office team of 8 as we look to expand the business. The successful candidate will process over 400 invoices per month and reconcile the bank transactions on a daily basis, process sales invoices and chase payment from our customers, and will have the opportunity to learn about different areas of the business. We are an ambitious and fun-loving team and we are looking for someone like-minded to join us in our next adventure.

The candidate will have the flexibility to manage their week as they see fit, with a minimum of 2 days working from our Head Office in Gospel Oak.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Bookkeeping, maintaining of sales and purchase ledgers
• Bank reconciliations, which includes resolving any discrepancies between customer invoices and customer payments
• Supplier Statement Reconciliation
• To negotiate utility contracts for all locations of the business
• Miscellaneous office and operational support

Skills & Competencies:

• Minimum 2 years experience in bookkeeping preferrable
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking to customers and suppliers
• Experience using Xero is preferably but not mandatory
• Microsoft Excel experience required
• Minimum 1 year experience of working in the retail and/or food & beverage industries is preferrable but not mandatory
• IT literacy
• Ability to organise, multitask, prioritise, and work under pressure
• Attention to detail

Role reports to: Finance Manager and Finance Director

Location: Gospel Oak, London