Senior Accountant
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £35000 – £45000/annum
Longriver Group are a well established and leading lease funding and asset finance provider to the public sector. Our core brand is Utility Rentals which is entirely education sector focused and enables the budgets of schools, academies, colleges and universities to go further via our market-leading lease, rental and subscription solutions.
Visit our website here: www. utility. rentals
We are looking for a highly motivated and talented Senior Accountant to join our small team in Burnham, Berkshire.
Senior Accountant Role Overview:
The Senior Accountant is a key role within the company. You will be managing, reconciling, and evaluating the accounts for the full group of companies, whilst coordinating and overseeing the successful daily running of the accounting department.
Senior Accountant Duties:
* Preparation of monthly management accounts, reports and VAT returns
* Preparation of annual accounts
* Preparation of branch accounts
* Review and approval of company accounts and tax
* Checking and activation of leasing contracts
* Reconciliation of finance systems
* Calculation of management charges
* Tax checking and approval
* Review and approval of supplier invoices
* Management of Direct Debit approvals
* Management of BACs payments
* Management of customer invoice process and arrears chasing
* Weekly treasury and cash flow
* Management of fixed deposits
* Staff management & training
* Managing and building relationships with external accountants, auditors and bankers
Essential criteria:
* ACCA / ACA qualified or equivalent with at least 3 years post qualification experience
* Able to demonstrate financial management experience
* Experienced in working with clients in a busy accountancy practice
* Able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of accounting systems – Sage, QuickBooks, and ideally Xero
* Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Be highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
* Experience of working with the education sector is beneficial but not essential
* Self-motivated and pro-active.
* Team-oriented, with a positive can-do attitude, is absolutely essential.
Why join the team at our amazing company?
* Fast-growing, successful company culture
* Regular incentives and rewards
* Good social scene with regular events funded by the company
* Flexible working
How to apply for our Senior Accountant role:
If you are a dynamic, driven, team player, who is looking for a role where hard work is recognised and rewarded, then we need you.
Send us your CV, tell us what’s great about you, and we’ll look forward to meeting with you soon!
Please no calls from agencies – we recruit directly and will not take agency calls. Thank you
You must be eligible to work in the UK
