Accounts Assistant

**About The Role**:
This role is estimated to be a 2-3 month assignment and is required to support additional workload during the the year end close, to cover holidays within the team and support clearing a backlog in accounts payable following a recent systems migration.

The key priorities for the role are:
**Year End**

To assist the Financial Accountant with the following:

- Collation and submission of year end audit requests from Group Finance and our external auditors
- Preparation of audit schedules.
- Preparation of statutory accounts.
- Timely responses to audit queries. **Month End**

To assist the Financial Accountant with the following:

- Month end AP and AR close process.
- Preparation of month end balance sheet reconciliations.
- Other ad hoc duties to support the month end close process. **Accounts Payable**

To support the Accounts Payable team to ensure that invoices are recorded in Accounts Payable in a timely manner. This includes but is not limited to:

- Matching invoices to relevant purchase orders ensuring that any discrepancies are investigated and resolved.
- Liaising with other departments to ensure the purchase order is raised or where this is not appropriate to seek the appropriate manager approvals for the invoice.
- Reviewing the coding of purchase orders to ensure that they accurately reflect the nature of the expenditure.
- Coding invoices that do not have purchase orders, obtaining approval from the Financial Accountant or Head of Finance
- Ensuring that any credit notes due are received on a timely basis and matched against the invoice.
- Preparing supplier statement reconciliations on a timely basis and investigate and resolve any discrepancies.
- To liaise with both internal and external suppliers/ customers promptly, efficiently, and appropriately.

**About You**:

- A-level educated with GCSE grades A to C or equivalent in English and Maths
- Experience within other transactional finance roles.
- Experience of Microsoft Finance & Operations (F&O) would be beneficial
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Able to work without direct supervision to tight deadlines
- Good written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally

**About Us**:
Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved into a multi-disciplinary technology services provider with global reach. The company has annualised revenues of circa £400 million, over 6,500 customers, and more than 2,500 employees in nine countries. In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.
- We have expanded through both organic growth and acquisitions, having made 24 acquisitions in the last 4 years and increased revenues by almost five times in the last six years. Claranet consistently appears in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 as one of the fastest growing privately-owned businesses in the UK.The Assistant Financial Accountant is responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of the monthly balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining the lease accounting records, fixed asset reporting and reconciliations, collation of monthly payroll reports and the preparation of year end audit file and statutory accounts.- We’re working on building an ever-improving company based on openness, diversity, collaboration, and empathy as our core values, a company that aims to be inclusive for the diverse group of people we get to work with, and where everyone supports each other and celebrates successes together. We want our people to feel engaged, comfortable, and healthy—and to know that they can belong here, no matter their story or background. If this resonates with you, then come and join us.