Business Support and Accounts Assistant

Job details

Your Profile:

Ideally AAT or equivalent experience
Strong Excel skills and familiarity with Accounting packages, ideally Exchequer
Experience working as an accounts assistant with hands on experience of accounts payable.
Experience of working a multi-company / multi-currency environment
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Willingness to challenge and scrutinise financial transactions.
Highly motivated, team player and with a commitment to financial accuracy and business excellence.

The Role:

This is a varied but demanding role that will be responsible for supporting the VP Finance with all financial administration tasks. This includes:

All accounts payable duties, which includes processing supplier invoices, reconciliation of statements, management of all payments,
Processing and management of staff expenses and company credit cards
Involvement in raising purchase orders for non-project related expense
Preparation of monthly reports
Assistance in ad hoc financial and business support tasks.

The role will also include broader administrative tasks as part of the business support team within the business.

Duties will include:

Providing holiday/sickness cover for other Business Support Staff.
Raising Purchase Orders and deputising for Purchasing Specialists.
Booking hotels, flights and other travel plans for company.
Providing support to Logistics Specialists.
Answering of phones and dealing with visitors to the company when required
Providing administrative support to other areas of the business where necessary.
To document and keep updated processes within the business support team.

Critical Success Factors Of The Role:

To be accurate and have a ‘right first time’ approach to all tasks.
To always operate to the highest standards of integrity, showing complete discretion and confidentiality around sensitive information.
To quickly earn the trust of other members of the company.
To be organised and structured in the way you work.
To have a real attention to detail to all the work you produce.
To be able to effectively work under pressure and deliver to strict deadlines.
To quickly familiarise yourself with all relevant Holovis finance and accounting processes, systems and procedures.
To always meet and sometimes exceed (internal and external) customers’ expectations.
To be pro-active; trying to foresee potential problems/issues and offer solutions as appropriate.
To be a team player, co-operating with and supporting colleagues.
To carry out tasks with a flexible, enthusiastic and positive, can-do mind-set.
To use your initiative, offering pro-active suggestions to problem solving.

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: £28,000.00-£38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Work Location: In person