(To Start ASAP) Job Description Unsupervised routine maintenance and daily updating of the purchase and nominal ledgers for the companies, this includes; Purchase invoices and purchase payments are processed on SAGE; Ensuring that costs not invoiced or paid for are accrued for; Ensuring that costs paid in advance (prepayments) are allocated to the correct accounting period; Ensuring financial transactions are posted to the correct nominal account; Posting payroll costs via journal onto SAGE; Analysing and re-charging any inter-company costs; Making fixed asset and depreciation postings and the fixed asset register; Ensuring any inter-company trade invoicing is reconciled; Ensuring balance sheet control accounts are reconciled; Ensuring debtors and creditors nominal accounts are reconciled; Managing the business credit cards by processing the transactions on SAGE, reconciling the transactions between the statements and SAGE and validating transactions with receipts; Maintaining complete and accurate files of all documents relating to the financial transactions being transacted; Validating the sales reconciliations prepared by the Credit Controller; Ensuring business purchases are made in accordance with our policies and that these are complied with by the other operational teams; Maintaining and reconciling purchase ledger supplier accounts; Preparing the VAT returns to be signed off by the Head of Finance before submitting the returns to HMRC; Providing information and support to the Head of Finance as required; Cover for key tasks in the absence of other finance colleagues; Key performance indicators All control accounts are reconciled monthly; All bank accounts are reconciled monthly; Qualifications and Experience Previous experience of managing a purchase ledger; AAT part or fully qualified or good working experience of processing financial transactions and reconciliations; Excellent working knowledge of SAGE (50Cloud) and Microsoft Excel; Good working knowledge of Microsoft office, including Word, Outlook and Explorer; Previous experience of using database systems; Previous experience of working in a finance environment; Excellent standard of numeracy; High standard of literacy; Excellent organisation skills; Good communication skills - verbal and written; The ability to manage own workload to agreed timescales effectively and unsupervised;