Description
Responsibilities
- To manage the accounting function within Investit ensuring that all payments and receipts are correctly effected and recorded in a timely efficient manner.
- To administer payroll (N.B. payroll processing is outsourced to a professional advisor).
- To administer insurances, Group Personal Pension (GPP) scheme, and ancillary finance related responsibilities.
- To administer the share option scheme.
- To ensure that external audits are carried out by HMRC and the Company's accountants are completed satisfactorily
- To provide accounting support to Overseas offices
- Maintaining the Sales & Purchase ledger
- Provision of management information Raising invoices ASAP in line with contractural agreements.
- Paying invoices via BACS or cheque as appropriate.
- Monitoring overdue invoices and taking appropriate action to ensure payment
- Daily cash-flow management
- Carrying out full month end procedures
- Prepayments and accruals
- Bank/Balance sheet reconciliations
- Producing monthly management accounts
- VAT return
- Involvement with monthly salaries, tax/NI and pension payments
- Preparing P11D information for the yearly return
- Preparing information for the external auditor and HMRC
- Preparing annual company budgets
- Organising yearly board meeting and AGM, attending and preparing the minutes
- Managing the company EMI share option scheme
- Provision of minutes for management team meetings and Board meetings
- Fulfilling companies responsibilities under the Companies Act;
Skills and Experience
- You should have proven experience in a finance department of a small to medium sized entity
- Experience of SAGE is essential
- Proficient in use of Office desktop packages (MS-Excel, Word, Powerpoint);
- You will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Communication skills - the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Financial services industry experience would be useful but not essential.
- Cooperative, collegiate attitude we are a small company and so it is essential to be able and willing to support our colleagues.