Our Client, a UK award-winning children's newspaper, has an education division, that provides a portfolio of digital and print products to help schools build news-reading communities and develop core literacy skills through a foundation of global news. The products include the weekly newspaper and a suite of educational learning tools to drive reading, writing, and speaking skills in primary and secondary schools in the UK and around the world.
The Accounts Assistant will join the Finance team and will work closely with the Finance controller.
Purpose of the role
The Accounts Assistant will play a key role in managing the day to day business interests and would be comfortable with communicating to clients, especially educational establishments, helping to resolve issues etc.
Requirements
Daily tasks
Downloading Bank statements
Uploading to Xero and then reconciling
Add school Bacs payments to the FNN Credit control google spreadsheet
Allocate payments on the unpaid sheet along with adding recent remittances
Weekly task
Raise weekly Advertisement invoices
Compiling supplier payments BACS runs
Paying schools and consumer refunds
Uploading to the bank
Month End Tasks
Monthly Recharge invoices (P1 & Fresh media)
Bank accounts fully reconciled
Credit Card Reconciliations
Stripe fully reconciled
Marketforce Rec
Esco Rec
FNL Cashbook
Educational Resources Recs
Freelancers Recs
Print Costs Recs
Editorial Costs Recs
Marketing Recs Recs
Purchase Ledger
Invoice approvals by each department
Coding to the correct nominal code
Uploading of invoices
Statement Reconciliations
Maintaining Supplier information
Sales Ledger
Raising ad hoc invoices for other departments
Raising Advertisement invoices
Submitting to relevant portals for payments.
Sending out Statements
Chasing Outstanding Invoices
Schools - supporting the credit controller
Updating the unpaid sheet
Weekly Hubspot emails
Completion of weekly debt summary
Assisting with schools queries including discounts, downgrades and out of terms requests
Completion of school supplier forms
Ad Hoc Duties
Ordering of office supplies
Weekly ordering of kitchen supplies for the office
Systems used
Xero
Quotient
Hubspot
Myriad (schools)
Benefits
What they offer:
Auto enrolment into our workplace pension
25 days holiday + bank holidays (Plus option to buy up to an additional 5 holiday days)
Long service holiday increase - after 3 years' service holiday increases by 1 day a year up to maximum 28 days holiday.
Work abroad - work up to 5 days from anywhere worldwide.
Emergency leave - up to 5 days unpaid emergency leave per year.
Paid carers allowance - up to 5 days paid leave to care for a loved one or relative.
Season Ticket Loan
Cycle to work scheme
Flexible working start times
Eye care voucher
50% off First News subscriptions for friends and family
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