Finance Assistant - Brighton

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join our clients Finance team, based in Brighton on a permanent basis and would love you to start as soon as possible.

The fastest growing accountancy firm in Sussex, with multiple offices looking after thousands of businesses and individuals across the county, providing the full array of specialist accountancy, taxation, payroll, advisory and financial planning services.

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join the Finance team, based in Brighton on a permanent basis.

This back-office role is full time, with a salary of £23,000-25,000 per annum depending on experience, and the potential to complete AAT qualification.

Although this is advertised as a full-time vacancy, we are happy to be flexible and would consider anyone who needs to work around caring responsibilities etc.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining the purchase ledger including processing invoices onto our bookkeeping software, reconciling supplier accounts and creating payment runs
• Maintaining the sales ledger including allocating sales receipts to the correct invoices and reconciling the Fees at month end
• Bookkeeping including bank reconciliations
• Preparation of monthly management accounts and assist with month end reporting
• Drafting VAT Returns
• Liaising with internal managers, partners, suppliers and Head of Finance
• Other ad-hoc tasks

About you

Our ideal candidate for this role will:

• Have good attention to detail
• Be comfortable with IT including Excel. Training will be given on our bookkeeping and accounting software.
• Have the ability to prioritise
• Good organisation skills
• Good communication skills
• Previous accounts experience is desirable

Don’t meet all of the criteria for the role? Don’t worry - we’d love to hear from you!