Book Keeper

**Summary of the role**: Salary: £14,004pa (FTE £34,632) 2DPW (15 hours)

We require an experienced bookkeeper. This is a hands-on operational role, working as part of a small yet busy team, together with the Director of Finance, who also works part time, you will provide a finance function to the 4 companies, who each have separateledgers. Based on Sage 50 and Xero. All the ledgers are paperless. Your bookkeeping responsibilities includes the following duties:

- Full sales ledger function to include: setting up customer accounts, raising customer invoices cash allocation. Reconciliation of Sales ledger
- Full purchase ledger function: Coding & posting invoices, raising payments via on line banking, allocating payments. Reconciliation of purchase ledger control account.
- Credit control. Chasing for non-payment and maintaining records of the progress of collections.
- Expenses. Using Xero’s expenses module, managing employee expense claims eg checking claims’, receipts and coding. Raise payments via on line banking.
- Reconciliations; Various spreadsheets to reconcile the balance on general ledger accounts.
- Membership numbers reconciliations.
- Ad hoc Journal entry posting as required
- Events expenditure reconciliations.
- Helping the Director of Finance with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts

Essential duties and responsibilities
- Experience of using SAGE 50 (essential)
- Experience of using Xero
- At least 5+ years proven book keeping experience.
- Basic understanding of VAT, what can be reclaimed etc
- Basic spreadsheet usage and reconciliations
- Online banking
- IT literacy and numeracy skills - including use of Microsoft Office

The Person

A can-do attitude
- Attention to detail
- Organised, methodical
- Task based
- Good organisational and planning skills - Small company environment
- Hands on practical team player.
- Happy to work on their own and using their own initiative.
- Demonstrate high integrity and ability to build trust
- Methodical
- Eye for detail
- Working at pace, multi-tasking and organisational skills to manage different financial duties, including the ability to prioritise tasks in order to meet deadlines.