Brook Street
Finance Assistant – Heywood, Greater Manchester
Key Responsibilities
- Daily bank reconciliation
- Daily/Weekly Cashflow forecasting and reporting to the Group Finance Manager
- Sales Ledger Invoice processing, issuing of monthly Customer statements and allocation of payments
- Credit control duties, analysis of due/overdue Accounts Receivables and contacting customers to secure payment dates
- Purchase Ledger Invoice processing, Statement Reconciliation, analysis of due/overdue Accounts Payable and setting up bank payments to suppliers
- Processing weekly & monthly wages and expense payments using Xero (with Pensions Module)
- Weekly uploading of pension file contributions to the Company workplace pension provider
- Deducting subcontractor tax for online monthly submission under the HMRC’s CIS programme
- Issuing monthly CIS tax statements to subcontractors
- Setting up Monthly PAYE/NIC/CIS payments to HMRC
- Quarterly VAT reconciliation, return and setting up payment to HMRC
- Creating project files & maintaining financial information within these files
- Supervision of timesheet information which is entered on a weekly basis on Job Costing
- Monitoring of costs & staged payment billings by project on Job Costing
Skills and Expertise
- AAT Full or Part Qualified or Qualified by experience with at least 2 years’ experience in a similar role
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- High customer service ethos (internal & external)
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Can-do attitude and ability to work independently and within a team
- Self-confident, proactive and comfortable with taking initiative
- Ability to anticipate the needs of the company
- Experience of Xero Accounting and Payroll Software (Desirable)