Bookkeeper

Ainsworth Lord Estates is a family run estates and lettings agency with offices in Darwen & Blackburn. This position is based in our Darwen office.

We are looking for a part-time, qualified book keeper/accounts manager who can maintain our day to day financial records suitable for annual submission to our accountants, and carry out payroll functions using Xero.

**Duties**
- Be the main point of contact for all company accounting/financial matters
- Maintaining and managing cash and credit card records, inc petty cash etc
- Preparation and submission of VAT records
- Bank reconciliation
- Pay trade suppliers (verify invoices, negotiate and credit terms whenever possible)
- Chase outstanding invoices (verify receipt of invoices and payment dates)
- Manage and pay company suppliers
- Enter and maintain all financial records on Xero
- Deal with accountants/prep annual records
- Prepare wages and track staff hours/holidays etc with Xero Payrol software
- Prepare and maintain debtors list (1 x weekly)
- Prepare and maintain creditors list (1x weekly)
- Maintain Journal and Trial balances
- Maintain trial balance and P&L records
- Preparation of forecasts, and other financial reports occasionally
- Maintaining costings and other financial records for project works (on excel)

**Skill set**
- You must have a keen eye for detail
- Be a strong hand at administration
- Need to be highly organised
- Personable team player and good internal/external relationship builder
- Adaptable and flexible
- Calm under pressure
- Establish control through credibility
- Fast and efficient
- Customer orientated
- Be highly organised
- Excellent communicator in English

**Qualifications/Experience**
- Highly competent Xero user
- Highly competent Xero Payrol user
- Highly competent Office 365 products user, inc Word, Excel and Outlook
- Must have extensive experience in a similar job role

We are a friendly and highly professional company operating in a highly complaint environment that has been praised for its record keeping.
The diversity of work is interesting, requiring experience in order to maintain accuracy through good organisation and operating efficiently.

Pay: £20,000 - £22,000 pro rata

Hours: 24 hrs per week

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £20,000.00-£22,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Bookkeeping/Accounts: 3 years (required)