Senior Accountant

Absbiz; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Company

ABS IT Services, a leading Managed Service Provider (MSP), specialises in a comprehensive range of services including Hardware, Software Development, Virtualisation, Hosted Servers, Microsoft Products, Telecommunications, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Cyber/Data Security, Website Development, and Systems Maintenance. We are also at the forefront of autonomous drone delivery innovation and are seeking to appoint a Senior Accountant to bolster our team.

Company Mission:

To empower our customers through innovative technology solutions while fostering a culture of excellence and integrity in service delivery.

Job Description

This list of duties is not exhaustive; the role offers opportunities for the appointed person to develop other skills that the Company can benefit from:

• International accounting
• Financial Modelling and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for large projects
• Accounts receivable/payables
• Bank reconciliation and allocation of all bank payments and receipts
• Monthly balance sheet account reconciliation
• Processing of VAT returns
• Management accounts
• Annual accounts preparation for processing by the company-chartered accountants
• Company documentation and procedures
• Credit card accounting and payment preparation
• Stock Control within Sage and external to Sage
• General office administration
• Payroll entry into Sage
• Processing journals into Sage including Payroll, Prepayments and Accruals
• Cashflow - planning and forecasting
• Other general accounting tasks including:

• Monitor accounts inbox and deal with emails
• Supplier correspondence and contact
• Customer correspondence and contact
• Add products, process purchase orders and purchase invoices
• Process web orders, add products, raise delivery notes and sales invoices
• Process email and ad-hoc orders, add products, raise delivery notes and sales invoices
• Email purchase orders and delivery notes and update in Sage
• Email delivery notes and sales invoices and update in Sage
• Processing and accounting in Sage of credit card expenses – receipts preparation for matching using People HR software

• Processing of ad-hoc business expenses purchased with Debit cards
• Petty Cash – processing of cash expense and adding to Sage
• Filing across all areas – adding processed documents to the respective files and folders

Personal Attributes

Essential Skills:

• Must be passionate, driven and have desire to succeed
• Participate in meetings with the customers, suppliers and company employees
• Strong commercial awareness, attention to detail and resilience under pressure
• Proficiencies in job related computer skills including Sage, MS Office, Order/Stock Management/SharePoint
• Excellent management, organisational & administrative skills
• Experience in managing similar business accounts would be beneficial
• Ambition and self-motivation
• Full driving licence

Qualifications:

• Degree qualification or equivalent in Accounting & Finance
• Or AAT qualified
• Industry qualifications relevant to the appointment

Experience:

• Accounting experience in the UK: Minimum 5 years
• Must have recent experience in preparing management accounts, VAT returns and financial statements for corporate clients and financial modelling for large projects

Other:

• Must be entitled to work in the UK
• Must have own transport as public transport is not convenient for the Farnborough airport business parks

This opportunity is available as immediate start. However, a delay of up to one month will be acceptable.