Accounts Assistant

**Description**:
**Do you have experience in accurate financial record-keeping and reporting?**

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**Do you have previous working experience in accounts payable processing ensuring accuracy in the invoicing process?**

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**Are you known for your attention to detail and strong numerical aptitude?**

If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our **Accounts Team **at **London Heathrow**. As a member of the wider finance control team, you will play a crucial role in in ensuring the smooth operation of the accounting function by handling various tasks to support accurate financial record-keeping and reporting.

This role provides accounting support and management of the accounts payable function for both **Dunwoody Airline Services & WFS Ground Solutions**. The role is responsible for ensuring the processing & payment of the business suppliers whilst ensuring accurate invoice coding & maximising cash flow.

**Your main responsibilities on a day to day basis will be:

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- **Processing Transactions**: Recording financial transactions such as invoices, receipts, payments, and expenses into the accounting system.
- **Accounts Receivable**: Managing accounts receivable by issuing invoices, following up on late payments, and reconciling customer accounts.
- **Accounts Payable**: Handling accounts payable tasks including processing vendor invoices, verifying expense reports, and ensuring timely payments to suppliers.
- **Bank Reconciliation**: Reconciling bank statements with the company's financial records to ensure accuracy and identify discrepancies.
- **General Ledger Maintenance**: Assisting with maintaining the general ledger by posting journal entries, updating accounts, and preparing trial balances.
- **Expense Reporting**: Reviewing and processing employee expense reports, ensuring compliance with company policies and accurate recording of expenses.
- **Financial Reporting Support**: Assisting in the preparation of financial reports and statements by providing accurate and up-to-date financial data.
- **Assisting with Audits**: Providing support during internal or external audits by preparing documentation, retrieving financial records, and addressing auditor inquiries.
- **Data Entry and Filing**: Performing routine data entry tasks and maintaining organized filing systems for financial documents and records.

**To be successful in this role you will need:

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- A diploma or equivalent training within **accounts/finance**:

- **Relevant experience** in a similar role with a strong numerical aptitude and proficiency in basic accounting principles.
- Intermediate **MS Excel knowledge** e.g. pivot tables/vlookup/data analysis
- **Knowledge of Open Accounts (not essential)** or similar mid-range accounting systems / General Ledger.
- **Strong communication skills**, both written and verbal.
- **Attention to detail**.
- **Organisational skills** with the ability to take initiative, explore issues and to generate new ideas and processes.
- **Analytical skills** for interpreting financial information and making recommendations based on findings.
- Strong **team player** but also able to work autonomously and prioritise tasks.

**Our Values**:
**Focus on Customers**

We work proactively with our customers request and our customers’ customers to make sure we deliver what we have contracted to deliver. Without our customers, there is no WFS.

**Integrity**

We treat our people & stakeholders with respect and care building trust via open, honest and straightforward communication. We always operate within the boundaries of our code of conduct and ethics policies.

**Responsibility**

We do our jobs well, being accountable for our actions and taking responsibility for our work and those around us. We lead by example.

**Safety & Security**

We sincerely believe that safety & security is our number one priority at all times. We will do what we are trained to do, we will never take short-cuts and we will always speak up where we see compromises being taken.

**Teamwork**

We all work as part of a team, enjoying what we do, collaborating with our colleagues and relying on their expertise to make a valuable contribution to WFS.

**About Worldwide Flight Services**:
WFS is one of the world's leading ground handling organisations, providing high quality cargo, passenger, premium, ramp, baggage and technical services across a network spanning over 188 locations in more than 22 countries on five continents.

In our UK business, which employs more than 700 people across 19 sites all over the country, we have a clear vision: to empower our people, always look for improvements and lead our industry with great customer focus.