The AF Group

Assistant Accountant

  • Full-time
  • Finance
  • Honingham Thorpe

Description

Overview of Role

Maintain sales, purchase and nominal ledger postings for AF Affinity and co-ordinate and liaise with the AF Affinity business on an on-going basis.


To prepare management accounts for AF Affinity, provide back-up assistance to the Management Accountant and other team members and undertake any other relevant duties as required by the role.


To manage accounts receivable and payable, including proactive debt chasing to ensure timely collection of outstanding invoices.


Duties and Responsibilities

  • Prepare and distribute Affinity sales invoices in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring invoices are aligned to any order confirmation/prepayments and correct VAT rates and payment terms are applied
  • Issue monthly Affinity customer statements and chase payment of overdue accounts
  • First line support for any Affinity customer account queries ensuring these are responded to promptly
  • Administer any Affinity credit/refunds due in line with customer expectations
  • Process telephone card payments from customers
  • Reconcile Affinity supplier statements
  • Close Affinity sales and purchase ledgers in line with administration timetable ensuring all transactions are allocated in correct accounting periods
  • Prepare nominal ledger postings, banking/reconciliation and submit VAT returns
  • Preparation of Affinity monthly management accounts
  • Assist Management Accountant and Financial Controller with preparation and updating of Affinity budgets/forecasts and cash flows
  • Assist with any other ad-hoc reporting as required 


Person Specification

Skills

  • Strong IT and data presentation/analytical skills, including Microsoft Office – especially Excel.
  • Excellent attention to detail, together with a ‘can-do’ attitude in resolving issues.


Experience

  • Previous experience of working in a similar role
  • Background in an accounting environment - desirable
  • Use of SagePay or Stripe merchant services website - desirable


Qualifications

  • AAT or similar - desirable


Personal Attributes

  • Confident at communicating in a professional manner with all stakeholders.
  • Drive, enthusiasm and resilience, for working in a multi-faceted and challenging environment
  • Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
  • Commitment to attain delivery goals and personal objectives
  • Friendly and approachable personality, expert at building rapport
  • Initiative and self-confidence
  • Views problems as challenges that we work together to resolve

Benefits

Benefits

Salary: Up to £27,500 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week


Additional Benefits:

  • 8% employer pension contribution
  • 26 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays. This rises with each years service by an additional day, up to 7 extra days
  • Have your birthday off as an extra days holiday, if it falls on your working day
  • Free lunch daily from our onsite Café
  • AF Membership (giving discounts at hundreds of retailers and suppliers)
  • Life assurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Hybrid working
  • Free onsite parking