Bookkeeper/accounts and Payroll Assistant

**This role is for 30 hours per week.**

We are looking for a hard-working, competent individual with great attention to detail to join our team as a Bookkeeper/Finance Assistant. You will be responsible with assisting the Finance Director with all day-to-day financial tasks and bookkeeping duties.

Working alongside the Finance Director you will support on a range of financial activities including:
**Purchase Ledger**
- Updating and maintaining supplier’s database
- Matching of orders/deliveries and processing of invoices
- Reconciliation of supplier statements on a monthly basis
- Timely sending of remittance advices for payments made to suppliers.
- Resolution of purchase ledger queries to ensure prompt payment of accounts.
- Maintain up to date and accurate filing systems for all administration and supplier correspondence.
- Communicate with suppliers in a professional manner to maintain supplier relations.

**Sales ledger**
- Updating and maintaining customers database
- Processing invoices using Sage.
- Credit control

**Payroll**
- Processing payroll claims and payments
- Ensuring timely and accurate Payroll operations, record keeping and reporting
- Liaise with the HR Manager on all aspects of the payroll.
- Workings of salaries
- SSP, SMP, AOE Court orders
- Pension agreements, and percentages
- Student Loans
- PAYE and NIC payments and legislation
- Checking Tax codes and changing tax code in guidance with HMRC
- Completing RTI and submissions to HMRC every month
- Year End Procedure
- Producing P32, P45, P60, P14 and P11d’s
- Process payments
- Processing new starters and leavers and informing HMRC
- Update spreadsheets
- Sending payslips

**Mileage/Expenses**

Checking and processing B-Skill staff mileage and expenses

**Bank Accounts**
- Processing bank payments and bank receipts
- Management of credit/bank cards
- Check and posting of business card receipts.
- Bank reconciliation
- Checking Bank Statements
- Checking cash flow making sure we are on target.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Maintain Finance Workspace on the Company’s Intranet (SharePoint)
- Work with the Finance Director to develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal control

The post holder may be required to undertake other such responsibilities as are reasonably commensurate with the status of this post.

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Experience working at a similar finance level within a small/medium sized organisation
- Use of Sage and other Accounts based packages is essential
- Proficiency using MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and a willingness to learn and utilise other in-house systems.
- Education sector experience an advantage.

**Other requirements**
- Must be smart and presentable at all times
- Must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

**Our offer**:
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including:

- Generous paid holidays - 23 days to start with, increasing to 25 after a years’ service (plus bank holidays). After completion of 5 years of continuous service, employees will be rewarded with 1 additional day’s leave every year up to a maximum of 10 years where the employee would be entitled to 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- A flexible holiday scheme - allows you to buy up to 10 days additional holiday.
- An extra day off to celebrate your Birthday.
- Volunteer days - employees can earn an additional day’s annual leave to support a charity or good cause which is dear to them.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- Excellent working hours - our core business hours are 9.00am - 5.00pm but we appreciate the importance of a good work-life balance and try to accommodate atypical working patterns wherever possible.
- Health & Wellbeing - B-Skill offer all employee’s access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through Health Assured. The EAP is a confidential employee benefit designed to help you deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life, work life, health, and general wellbeing.
- Training opportunities - both internally and externally to develop key skills and enhance your capabilities in the performance of this role.
- Regular reviews and development planning to support career development.

**About B-Skill**:
Born in the Millennium year of 2000, B-Skill was conceived with a forward-looking vision and a firm belief that everyone, given the right learning opportunities and support in life, can realise their full potential. The opportunity exists for a challenging and rewarding career in an exciting industry and in a company, which is making a significant contribution to the training and development of people.

B-Skill takes very seriously our obligations in respect of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees This means we will consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender id