Are you an experienced Finance Officer looking for a new challenge? Are you looking to take on more responsibility and develop your finance experience? If so then we have an excellent opportunity to join a growing Gateshead head quartered organisation who are looking for someone to work alongside their Assistant Finance Manager. The Role Process weekly rent debit and update with annual increases. Prepare & review monthly Arrears and Voids reports circulate to operations. Raise journals for bad debt write offs and realign bad debt provision to targets. Collate quarterly rents statements Give support to operations team. Purchase Ledger Authorisation of invoices - check codes for nominal and department. Run auto payment for supplier payment, submit for approval, extract BACS file and upload to bank Oversee implementation of new purchasing system Subsidiary Accounts Manage income schedules for deferred, accrued & miscellaneous income Process journals Raise sales Invoices - send to customers with statements Credit control - Manage Aged debtors report, contact debtors for payment. Process bad debt provision Balance Sheet Update recons for P/L account analysis.(Gross Salaries) Fixed assets lead sheets - adjust with changes to fixed assets & process monthly depreciation journals. Balance to financials. Oversee fixed asset module implementation. Standing journals - update and process monthly. I.e. prepayments, accruals etc. Monthly recons of all balance sheet accounts. BBO Projects Salary expenses - process journals for time sheets, collate payroll information from payroll Purchase Invoices - obtain copies of for submission Claim Forms - Update expenditure - send to operations for submission to funders Management Accounts Assist with the review monthly accounts and give commentary Any ad hoc duties that me be assigned to you from time to time. Company Expectations Comply with all legal and health and safety requirements. To work to the performance standards provided and requested To carry out any other reasonable requests Ability to work to deadlines Good communication skills Excellent analytical and numerical skills Ability to use Microsoft Office packages Experience and Qualifications Part AAT qualified or similar (Minimum experience in a finance role of 3 years) Knowledge of the finance and accounting function Balance Sheet Reconciliations Variance analysis Budget preparations Ability to work to deadlines, prioritising work appropriately This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/85831807