Assistant Accountant - R3vamp Limited : Job Details

Job Role: Assistant Accountant

Salary: Circa 35k

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Newbury (Hybrid)

About Us

We passionately believe our greatest assets are our talent and pride ourselves on attracting, developing, and engaging the best talent. Every day, we bring collaboration, creativity, innovation, and passion that delivers better financial outcomes to all. We’re a fast-paced, growing company that connects and empowers our clients with intuitive, customer-centric advice and guidance software and investment solutions. We’re on the hunt for talented individuals that are forward-thinking, driven, and ready to make a real difference. Ready to write your first chapter with us?

Join us today.

The benefits of joining our exciting team

As well as offering fantastic opportunities for career progression once established in your role, you will be joining a friendly and relaxed working environment where you will be continuously supported and encouraged to reach your full potential. We have an open culture where you are encouraged to find and fix problems and not to pass them on to some other team. We are a great environment for makers and builders.

Sound like you?

We have fantastic benefits, including

• 25 days annual leave, bank holidays, one extra ‘company day’ for Christmas plus the option to buy a further five days annual leave

• Generous company pension scheme – up to 10% employer contribution

• Bonus

• Private medical

• Fully qualified Mental Health First Aiders

• Long term disability and Life Insurance

• Study support policy

• Free parking

• A huge range of free hot and cold drinks

• Excellent fully funded company events

• Weekly yogalates classes (on return to office)

• Company football team and Table Tennis team (on return to office)

• Poker nights with pizza! (on return to office)

• The opportunity to support local charities through fundraising events organised throughout the year

The Job

As an assistant accountant, you will be responsible for maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers, cash flow and bank account management. You will provide liaison with the Financial Controller to ensure timely and accurate production of the monthly Management Accounts.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Sales Ledger

• Sales invoice production & distribution

• Accounts receivable reconciliation

• Issuing customer statements

• Weekly debtor collection and aged receivables report

Purchase Ledger

• Processing purchase invoices

• Sending remittance advices

• Accounts payable reconciliation

Cash Flow Management

• Processing supplier BACS payments twice a month

• Credit control management

• Ownership of employee expenses process

Bank Management

• Processing bank payments and receipts.

• Reconciling bank accounts at the end of every month

• Reconciling credit cards at the end of every month

• Reconciling petty cash at the end of every month

Management Accounts Preparation

• Preparation of the monthly Accruals and Prepayments Schedule, including posting journals and reconciling the balance sheet.

• Depreciation – updating the Fixed Asset Register with new additions, posting journals, and reconciling the balance sheet.

• Revenue recognition – updating the Master Income Sheet with sales invoices and ensuring revenue is recognised correctly as either deferred or accrued income, posting journals.

• Posting monthly amortisation from Goodwill and Capitalised R&D journals

• Reconciling intercompany balances Assistant Accountant 4

• Profit and Loss analysis - comparing against last period and providing commentary

• Marketing YTD spend reporting, monthly meetings with the marketing manager ensuring spend is categorised correctly

• Preparing group financial statements for management board meeting.

Other duties

• Ownership of the accounts mailbox, responding to the queries.

• Ownership of Invoicing process.

• Year-end/audit support

• Quarterly VAT returns

• Updating Airtable (cloud based) software with invoicing information.

• Continual improvement initiatives within the finance department

• Ad hoc duties as required

Qualifications

• Fully AAT qualified or equivalent

Skills and experience

• 2 years’ experience of working within an account’s office

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, including excellent Excel skills

• Experience using Xero and ideally cloud based accounts software

Personal attributes

• Absolute attention to detail

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to explain information in a clear and understandable way to non-finance professionals

• Strong team player, with a willingness to assist and learn from colleagues

• Drive for continual improvement in processes and systems