Accounts Assistant

6 months ago


Orpington, United Kingdom calfordseaden Full time

calfordseaden is a leading multi-disciplined construction and property consultancy. We provide a definitive range of services to the UK building and construction industry covering civil and structural engineering; chartered building and quantity surveying; project management; architecture and master planning; mechanical and electrical engineering; sustainability; fire consultancy, building information modelling (BIM); and health and safety.

**Position**

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Accounts Assistant to join our dynamic finance team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a supportive and collaborative environment. At calfordseaden you will embark on a developmental journey to enhance your skills and knowledge in purchase ledger and management accounting. Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will assist the purchase ledger and take responsibility for month-end processes, year-end audit and various ad-hoc reports.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assist in the month-end process by preparing and posting journal entries as needed to reflect month-end adjustments, including depreciation, prepayments and accruals.
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Bank reconciliations
- Overseeing the postings made into subsidiary companies including intercompany reconciliations.
- Monitor and analyse accounting data to identify trends and variances.
- Work closely and actively support the wider finance team to ensure deadlines are met in an accurate and timely manner.
- Collaborate with purchase ledger to ensure accuracy of invoice coding and smooth running of payments made to suppliers and staff expenses.
- Assist the team with the running of Expense and Invoicing software.
- Assist preparations of the year-end accounts along with all relevant supporting documentation required for the external audit.

**About You**
- You will have proven experience within a previous finance role and be eager to learn a wide range of tasks performed in a Finance department..
- Able to work to deadlines and prioritise workload.
- Proficient with Excel. Knowledge of Pivot tables, XLOOKUPS etc desirable.
- Experience working in a busy finance team.
- Experience working with Sage 200 desirable.
- Studying AAT or starting ACCA/CIMA

**Benefits**:

- Study support to towards accountancy qualification

**Our Vision**

To be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment.

**Our values**
- **Collaboration** - being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential
- **Being Yourself **- being true to ourselves and other and celebrating differences
- **Social Value** - recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact
- **Excellence** - Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do
- **Support** - providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our people
- **Integrity** - being honest and doing the right thing

Our values are integral to everything we do and are reflective of our interaction with each other, our clients, our wider stakeholders and how we approach our work and present ourselves.

Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the best results and are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us time and time again.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are at the forefront of our people strategy, and we are now to offer hybrid working on 95% of our roles and have recently committed to enhanced Family Leave schemes (after a qualifying period). We are passionate about encouraging more diversity within the construction industry and developing our apprenticeship program, along with enhancing our schools outreach program is part of our strategy.

If you are aligned to our values and are a talented and commercially minded please apply, or if this job isn’t quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within construction consultancy, please send us your CV for one of our future roles.

**Training and Development**

We are proud to hold the Investors in People Gold award and of our offerings for Leadership and Management Development. Our IIP awards confirms our commitment to developing our people and we are keen to assist individuals in developing work related professional interests. The Practice takes training seriously, providing practical and financial assistance to all eligible personnel.

calfordseaden is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to and support the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training and service delivery.

**Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006: List of Documents**

The Practice is required under this Act to ensure that all Employees have the right to work in the UK and the right to do the work offered.

At interview all potential Employees must provide one


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