Accounts Assistant - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridge Roof Exchange Ltd

Description

Accounts Assistant

As an Accounts Assistant, you'll be responsible for updating and maintaining our income and expenditure ledgers, which includes bookkeeping inside Xero, raising supplier and customer invoices, ensuring compliance with CIS (Construction Industry Tax Scheme), among other duties.

Cambridge Roof Exchange Ltd is a young, innovative and fast-growing construction services company with a family-friendly approach to our treatment of staff.

This is reflected in the importance attached to the positive attitudes and care we show to our fellow employees, suppliers and clients.

Supporting the finance and admin processing for the company, you'll work within finance to ensure the company has good financial control over our projects and all data is accurate and up to date.

You will also be required to maintain and produce reporting where required to track project progress.


Responsibilities

• Monitoring and processing a variety of different types of invoices received into the accounts inbox into Xero and CMX (Construction Manager is the system we use for project accounting).
• Approving and posting supplier invoices.
• Reconciling Xero to supplier statements.
• Raising customer invoices and matching against POs.
• Month end checks and reconciliations
• Processing weekly CIS subcontractor invoices and sending remittances.
• CIS verification of subcontractors
• Monthly bank and credit card reconciliation
• Following up on outstanding invoices.
• Checking client PO's against quotations and raising invoices.
• Sourcing missing supplier invoices and bills.

Working hours

The working week is 37.5 hours based in our offices in Cambridge - some work from home can be considered as requested.

Experience & Qualifications

• You will have at least 2 years bookkeeping experience.
• Experience of using Xero would be an advantage but not essential.
• AAT Qualification would be an advantage but not essential.

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You'll need to show:

• Strong communication skills for liaising with a range of clients and suppliers.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills for reporting and ensuring all financial information is accurate and up to date.
• Resilience and problemsolving skills in order to overcome unexpected challenges.
• An ability to make decisions under pressure when needed
• Strong attention to detail for managing complex contracts.
• Numerical and IT skills, including knowledge of relevant accounting software packages, MS

Office, Google Drive, Asana etc.

• Ability to be organised and focused to ensure delivery under pressure.
• Ability to multitask.
• Good at asking questions and checking details.
• Is good at planning ahead and forward thinking.

Salary
Annual salary between £27,500 and £30,000 depending upon experience.


Employment Type:

37.5 hours, Full-time, Temp - permanent.


Leave:

• 20 days plus bank holidays.

Are we a good fit for _
you_
?
It's really important to us that you take time to assess whether this is a good fit for _
you_, in order for you to make that assessment we can tell you about the things that are really important to us:

People can trust us to consistently deliver well - we need to be delivering high-quality work day in day out, every day - this is what we aspire to, and so the quality of the work and making sure we do what we said we would do is so important to us - _is this important to you?_


Communication - it's really important to us that we communicate really well both with each other and with our customers, staff and suppliers. We need to be consistent with our communication and ensure people feel like they are important to us, because they are - _is this important to you?_


Safety first - what we do means that we always need to be putting safety first and ensuring that we have put the right measures in place based on the assessed risk - it's really important to us that we always put safety first - _is this important to you?_


We are respectful - we respect each other and it's important that anyone who works with and alongside us always seeks to build respected relationships, even during disagreement - _is this important to you?_


Our people are respected and are given everything they need to be the best they can be - it's important to us that we continually assess whether people have everything they need to do their job well, including the right training, information, communication, equipment, and respect _- is this important to you?_


We Innovate - our innovation journey is only really just beginning but it's really important to us that we constantly seek out ways to innovate what we are doing and how we are doing it - we want to challenge ourselves and others to do things differently - _is this important to you?_


Reference ID:
CRE-ACCOUNTS-ASSISTANT


Job Types:
Full-time, Temp to perm

Contract length: 6 months


Salary:
£27,500.00-£30,000