Accounts Job Description
Accounts Duties & Responsibilities
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Accounts Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Accounts
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Education for Accounts
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Employers hiring for the accounts job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Associates, Education, Business/Administration, Accountancy, Management, Technical, Graduate
Skills for Accounts
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Accounts Examples
Accounts Job Description
- SAP data input of sales, bank movements, reports
- The role will involve all aspects of accounts production, audit work, bookkeeping, VAT and Tax returns for a wide variety of different clients
- The successful applicant will already have experience within an accountancy firm and will be keen to progress their career further
- Check purchase ledger invoice before posting into the financial accounts
- Reconcile monthly supplier statements
- Dealing with discrepancies and queries
- Liaise with suppliers regarding payment queries and missing invoices
- Check, code and post expenses
- Weekly and monthly preparation of payment runs
- Reallocate exchange differences resulting from payment run
- Experience workign for multiple customers in a multinational organisation
- Qualified ACCA/ACA or QBE, with experience using IRIS and Sage computer systems
- 2/3 years of solid experience within an Accounts Payable role
- Experience in handling a high number of invoices
- AAT qualified or ACCA P/Q
- Committed to study for an ACCA qualification (study support available)
Accounts Job Description
- Data entry on accounting system
- Billing administration
- Assisting in month-end processes as required
- Adhoc Finance activities
- To organise processing of supplier invoices
- Ensuring correct payments are made to suppliers
- Process weekly and monthly payroll and maintain appropriate records
- Record cash transactions daily
- Maintain financial records
- Manage accounts and cash office team
- AAT or equivalent preferable
- Strong interpersonal skills and confident and proficient in dealing with staff at all levels
- Adaptable to constantly changing environment
- Highly numerate with excellent computer skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and without close supervision
- Ensure all invoices are processed in a timely manner
Accounts Job Description
- Production of daily sales reports, including testing to check pricing on ERP system and tracking of orders including discount
- Management of a company fund - Recording invoices on system Creating approved credit notes, tagging credit card expenses, updating tracker, chasing Sales team for invoices
- AR Support for a busy online account (Amazon)
- AP support
- Processing of daily cheque runs
- Daily use of Internet Banking
- Filing of client account posting slips, supplier invoices & expense claim forms
- Entering supplier invoices into the accounts payable system
- Entering staff expense payments into the accounts payable system
- Assisting with supplier queries and statements
- Balance sheet reconciliations for general ledger accounts including intercompany, payroll
- Ensure all invoices are scanned and saved on the server
- Accurate coding of purchase invoices by liaising with managers to ensure correct allocation of costs
- Ensure authorisation and sign off levels are in line with company policy before payment
- Planning of payment run by ensuring appropriate directors are available for release of payments and that review time is allowed for before deadline of submission to payment system
- Reconciliations of supplier accounts to statements
Accounts Job Description
- Review bank reconciliation
- Prepare monthly VAT returns
- Prepare quarterly VAT returns for the UK
- Assist with external yearend audit
- Undertake the internal audit as part of the company's controls management
- General accounts admin duties and general office admin duties as required
- Dublin Creditors Ledger, posting invoices and dealing with queries
- Reconciliation of accounts and issuing payments
- Managing the collection of DD and reconciliation to accounts
- Processing high volume of customer invoices ensuring maximum accuracy and efficiency
- Delivers projects on time without being chased
- Is a safe pair of hands
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, a necessity
- Interpersonal and self-motivated
- CIS experience essential - please don't apply if you don't have this experience
- Subcontracter payments
Accounts Job Description
- Process accurately high volume of invoices
- Assisting with other finance and administrative duties
- To Co-ordinate and control the flow of documents and information between Hotel and Accounting Centre
- To Organise flow of payroll information between Hotel and Centralised Payroll department
- Fax Daily Banking Control documents to Accounting Centre on a daily basis
- Check that all outlet bankings balance to Cashiering reports and End of Day
- Forward departmental accruals (including Purchase Invoices received dated in current month, but not sent to the accounting centre by 29th of month) by 2nd working day of the month
- Email Marge Brut Pack (including stocks, complimentary and Marge Brut) to Accounting Centre by 2nd working day at latest
- Ensure that no entries are made to the sales ledger after the last day of the month, until the accountant gives permission to do so
- Maintain credit on franking machine
- Have a minimum of three years' accounts experience within a busy SME environment
- Two year degree in Accounting is preferred
- Prepare monthly analysis for the company as required, including assisting with cost and profit centre P&L reporting, forecasting and budgeting
- Prepare monthly company balance sheet schedules and supporting documentation, and to assist with the required balance sheet and working capital reporting
- Produce monthly cash forecasts
- Produce monthly payroll reports