Assistant Accountant

Job description
Role: Assistant Accountant (Account Receivable/Revenue Recognition)

Location: Hampstead, North London

Salary: £32k – 34k + study support

Job Type: Full-time, permanent, hybrid working

Available: Immediately

About the role:

Our successful Assistant Accountant will have a range of responsibilities across accounts receivable and income reconciliation analysis. This will involve calculating invoices, matching receipts with outstanding invoicing, communicating with clients and performing aged debtor reviews, chasing outstanding debt, reconciling bank accounts, preparing income return. The role also requires close communication with our Account Management and Sales team through a monthly analysis of unbilled labour and expenses, which support the income reconciliation process.

Responsibilities to include:
• Raising and issuing sales invoices based on contractual terms and ensuring the correct
• allocation of cash receipts to individual cash centers.
• Researching and investigating discrepancies in invoices to determine the accuracy of
• charges
• Matching payments to invoice amounts; ensuring timely payment of debts
• Handling customer inquiries regarding billing issues
• Ensuring payments are received within the agreed credit terms
• Chasing up overdue payments via telephone and email
• Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors
• Keeping detailed records of collection activities and conversations
• Resolving outstanding payments and sending customer statements
• Managing Accounts Receivable ledger and Accounts Receivable files
• Submitting fortnightly Aged Debtor reports to management to report on accounts
• receivable operations
• Processing and reconciling income received from various income sources, ensuring
• correct nominal codes are applied

Desirable skills and experience:
• Part qualified or finalist AAT (or qualified by experience)
• 5+ years’ experience in a finance related role in a medium sized business
• Previous credit control experience
• Experience of assisting in the production of statutory, management reports and accounts
• Experience of analysing large volumes of data
• Intermediate level in Excel (Pivot table, Sorting, Filtering, Deduplication, VLOOKUP,
• Match, SumIf, Sumifs, Sumproduct, etc.)
• Ability to prioritise a busy workload and to remain calm under pressure
• Confident to work independently plus able to work in a team environment.
• Previous experience in SAGE (50/200/Intacct) is essential. DocuSign / Concur /
• GoCardless / Stripe experience is also desirable.

If you are interested in this role and would like to hear more, please contact Rachael Newsham at GroupNexus for more information. Our aim is always to respond within 7 days of your application, but if you have not heard from us and have a question you would like to ask then please do not hesitate to get in touch. Thank you for considering GroupNexus as your next employer!

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, ****** orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic