Accounting Assistant
- Employer
- Placement Central
- Location
- St. Albans, UK
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Nov 12, 2019
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- Job Role
- Accounts Assistant
- Sector
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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A very varied role in the Finance Business Partnering Team, working with Finance and with contact with many of the Councils departments Opportunity to use and develop Business Partnering skills in a friendly and supportive environment Tasks - including but not exclusively A variety of data input in Integra (General Ledger) - numerical and narrative Analysis of General Ledger Codes to answer queries from Finance Team or from Budget Holders Analysing budget variances as required Preparing monthly reporting timetables and distributing to Finance Team and budget Holders Preparing journals for input to General Ledger Running reports from General Ledger and sending them to Budget Holders and Service Owners periodically to a timetable and as required Managing electronic filing and assisting with GDPR compliance Maintaining/updating wages and salary forecast spreadsheets as required by Finance Business Partners Preparing Board report templates (Excel and Powerpoint) and assisting with completion/checking Maintaining schedules of Grants and Reserves Preparation of budget adjustment and virement documents and ensuring correct approvals have been obtained and filed Diarising meetings for Finance Business Partners and booking rooms and other resources as required Other duties to support the Finance Business Partners and Manager Skills and competencies - Essential Good working knowledge of finance / accounts procedures Competent use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint (Intermediate) Experience of handling confidential and sensitive data, understanding of GDPR Understand importance of team work and knowledge sharing Methodical with good attention to detail Able to perform data input with accuracy Good organisational skills Friendly calm communicator with experience working with non Finance people Good general office administration skills Experience of using accounting software GCSEMaths and English language Skills and Competencies - Desirable AAT (level 3 plus) is an advantage
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