Accounts Manager​/Book-keeper

Purpose of the role:To run the Accounts process
Reporting to: Partners
Overview of the role: Overseeing all financial matters in the business.

Typical Responsibilities

Cashflow

Processing sales invoices and receipts

Credit control

Processing purchase invoices and payments

Accounts

Entering all data into Quickbooks accounting software, including allocating new project numbers

Updating databases with relevant information

Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets

Helping the Accountant with administrative duties and preparing yearly accounts

Banking

Bank reconciliations

Tracking bank account balances

Compliance

Completing VAT returns

Submission of tax information to HMRC

Payroll and expenses

Preparing employee salaries

Managing employee expense claims

HR

A working knowledge of HR and Employment Law

Setting new starters up on Quickbooks

Drafting staff contracts

Managing the company health insurance scheme

Other occasional duties

Phone answering

Technical

Competent and skilled at using:

Mac OS

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Quickbooks

Notion

Microsoft Word

Client-facing: represents the practice professionally and competently

Communicates well with clients and other collaborators

Excellent English language skills; drafting professional emails and documents

Recognises potential issues before they become a problem; communicates promptly with the Partners

Helpful, reliable and friendly; approachable with a proactive and positive attitude; sensitive to others; co-operative and receptive to feedback

Management

Takes personal responsibility and is accountable for own actions

Ensures no task is undertaken without first agreeing a 'SMART' brief.

Aware of the Pareto Principle and able to implement its lessons

Organised and tidy; meets agreed deadlines

Understands and is engaged with the practice's vision and contributes towards achieving its goals

Proactively seeks new opportunities to expand personal and professional development and willingly shares new-found knowledge and skills with colleagues.

If this position is of interest to you,  and portfolio to us (maximum attachment size 5

Mb). We receive a large number of applications; as a consequence we will only
consider applications that answer the following questions:

1) Why do you want to come to work for LA London?

2) Describe any professional experience you have that is relevant to what we do.

3) What skills and personal attributes do you have that we can benefit from?

4) What are your career goals and how do you plan to accomplish them?

5) What professional experience of using ARCHICAD do you have?

6) Tell us something interesting about yourself.

Only after we have received your replies to these questions will we open your CV and take your application to the next stage, which will normally be a short telephone interview.

Please send your application to careersdon , with the subject as “RECRUITMENT – SIX QUESTIONS”.