Senior Accounts Assistant

The Opportunity

Delighted to be supporting a fast-growing and people-focused construction company based in the City of London recruit for a Senior Accounts Assistant. This is a newly created role to support the growth of the business.

As a Senior Accounts Assistant, your role is to support the finance department by ensuring accurate financial record-keeping, processing transactions, and assisting with financial reporting. You will handle various accounting tasks, including managing invoices, payments, reconciling bank statements, and maintaining financial data in the company’s accounting system. As a Senior, you will be responsible for ensuring the accounts payable function is operating accurately, smoothly and efficiently. You will assist with processing payments and reconciling payment runs, be responsible for management of the accounts inbox, and mentor and review the work of junior members of the team.

If you are looking to join a firm that genuinely values its people, encourages professional growth, and offers long-term career opportunities, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentoring and reviewing work of junior staff, ensuring adherence to company processes.
• Processing and matching of purchase invoices through accountancy software, ensuring accurate project and group allocations.
• Purchase requisition of goods for office and sites.
• Liaising with supply chain over incoming and outgoing queries.
• Processing of Subcontract invoices, ensuring accurate recording of CIS and VAT.
• Ensuring compliance is maintained throughout the full process in relation to supplier set ups, insurance handling, retention recognition and more.
• Sending out remittances and CIS statements to supply chain.
• Assist with overseeing the sales ledger and credit control.
• Bank/credit card reconciliations, including ensuring records are timely and up to date.
• Reconciliation and assisting with payment runs.
• Supervision and responsibility of the accounts inbox, including ensuring queries are actioned and lead time in actions is suitable.
• Reviewing project reports and ensuring they are delivered to commercial team on time.
• Ad hoc tasks to assist the management accountant as required

The successful candidate will possess:

• Previous experience within the construction industry
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy, operating in a fast paced environment
• Proficient in financial calculations, data analysis, and reconciliation processes.
• Ability to multi-task
• Highly Proactive and able to work independently as well as part of a team
• Handle sensitive financial information
• Competent in accounting software and Microsoft Excel
• Well experienced and able to delegate and review the work of junior team members
• Ability to deal with third parties confidently and professionally