Accounts Assistant

1 week ago

Wallingford, United Kingdom Group GTI Full time

**Description**:
**About The Role**:
To support the finance team by ensuring accurate and timely processing of financial transactions, maintaining organised records and assisting with routine accounting tasks. Playing a vital role in maintaining the integrity of financial data and contributing to the smooth operation of the organisations financial processes.

**Outcomes**:
**1.** **Timely and Accurate Month-End Processing**:

- Completes key aspects of the month-end close process, including posting accruals and prepayments, ensuring financial results reflect a true and fair view.
- Produces and reviews monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are fully supported, accurate and ready for internal review or audit.
- Supports the preparation of board pack slides by providing accurate, up-to-date financial metrics and variance analysis, enabling informed decision-making.
- Ensures all financial data is accurate, current, and maintained in accounting systems, supporting internal and external reporting requirements.

**2.** **Ownership of Purchase Order Approvals**:

- Manages the end-to-end PO process, including approval workflows and accurate coding of expenditure back to the correct budget and forecast lines.
- Works closely with budget holders to ensure financial transactions are correctly coded, challenging inconsistencies to support accurate forecasting and financial control.

**3.** **Sales Ledger Accuracy & Credit Control Support**:

- Maintains an accurate sales ledger by supporting the Credit Controller in;
- the collection of outstanding debts.
- running aged debt reports.
- following up on overdue accounts.
- Ensures all financial data is accurate, current, and maintained in accounting systems, supporting internal and external reporting requirements.
- Assists wider GTI team with client set up forms, and providing financial information for tender submissions.

**4.** **Active member of the Finance team and wider business**:

- Enjoy contributing to the team dynamic, outcomes and wider business.
- Live and promote the GTI values.

**Person Specification**:

- Excellent attention to detail and high level of numerical accuracy.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time effectively across multiple tasks.
- Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of assigned responsibilities.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and goals.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and takes initiative.
- Professional curiosity with a willingness to learn.

**Work Experience, Knowledge and Skills**:

- Strong Excel Skills.
- Practical knowledge of month-end processes including accruals, prepayments, and reconciliations.
- Experience working in a finance or accounts team, ideally in a similar assistant or junior accounting role.
- AAT qualified or working towards (or equivalent accounting experience).
- Previous use of Xero accounting software is beneficial but not essential.

**Other Information**:

- Permanent role - 25 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9.30am - 2.30pm.
- 3-month probationary period.
- Study Support

**About Group GTI**:
**We aim to help students realise their potential in the world of work through technology, content and tools. That’s not an easy thing.**

We believe in understanding students and partnering with employers, universities, schools and other technology providers.

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