Bookeeper Full Timepermanent

**Position: Bookkeeper - with strong management account experience**:

- **Salary: £31,000 - £34,000 per annum plus very good company benefits**:

- **Location: Uckfield, East Sussex**:

- Hours: Monday - Friday 09:15 - 17.30. This role is primarily office based but there are opportunities to also work from home part of the week
- **Free street parking available very nearby.**

We are delighted to be working alongside our very professional and highly reputable accountancy based client as they seek to recruit a Bookkeeper to join their Uckfield team on a permanent and full time basis.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Input and review data
- Review and maintain sales, purchase and general ledgers
- Post and review month end journals
- Adhere to proper accounting standards
- Meet deadlines and time budgets
- Advise managers of any outstanding issues
- Complete and review VAT returns
- Maintain a full and accurate audit trail by filing and referencing documents
- Liaise with other departments within the business
- Travel to and work from client sites if required
- Prepare and review management accounts from information and documentation received from clients, ensuring that all relevant deadlines are met
- Complete each assignment before passing to the manager for review
- Develop and maintain good client relations
- Liaise with clients directly or through relevant manager to resolve queries or obtain further information
- Ensure a high level of service to meet client’s expectations
- Ensure that all hours worked on assignments are correctly recorded
- Training and supporting more junior members of staff and clients

**Skills and experience required**:
**Essential**
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Previous proven book-keeping experience
- Numerate and analytical with excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Evidence of being a proactive, self-starter who can manage changing priorities
- Intermediate/advanced Excel, Xero, Sage 50

**Skills and experience required**:
**Desirable**
- Extensive knowledge of VAT
- Knowledge of payroll

First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job Overview

**Location**:
Uckfield, UK

**Salary**:
£31,000 - £34,000