Accounts Assistant

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 17/10/2024

Our Client, a UK award-winning children’s newspaper, has an education division, that provides a portfolio of digital and print products to help schools build news-reading communities and develop core literacy skills through a foundation of global news. The products include the weekly newspaper and a suite of educational learning tools to drive reading, writing, and speaking skills in primary and secondary schools in the UK and around the world.

The Accounts Assistant will join the Finance team and will work closely with the Finance controller.

The Accounts Assistant will play a key role in managing the day to day business interests and would be comfortable with communicating to clients, especially educational establishments, helping to resolve issues etc.

• Uploading to Xero and then reconciling
• Add school Bacs payments to the FNN Credit control google spreadsheet
• Allocate payments on the unpaid sheet along with adding recent remittances

• Raise weekly Advertisement invoices
• Compiling supplier payments BACS runs
• Paying schools and consumer refunds
• Uploading to the bank

• Bank accounts fully reconciled
• Credit Card Reconciliations
• Stripe fully reconciled
• Invoice approvals by each department
• Coding to the correct nominal code
• Uploading of invoices
• Statement Reconciliations
• Raising ad hoc invoices for other departments
• Submitting to relevant portals for payments.
• Chasing Outstanding Invoices

• Updating the unpaid sheet
• Weekly Hubspot emails
• Completion of weekly debt summary
• Assisting with schools queries including discounts, downgrades and out of terms requests
• Completion of school supplier forms

• Ordering of office supplies
• Weekly ordering of kitchen supplies for the office

None specified.

• Auto enrolment into our workplace pension
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (Plus option to buy up to an additional 5 holiday days)
• Long service holiday increase - after 3 years’ service holiday increases by 1 day a year up to maximum 28 days holiday.
• Work abroad – work up to 5 days from anywhere worldwide.
• Emergency leave – up to 5 days unpaid emergency leave per year.
• Paid carers allowance – up to 5 days paid leave to care for a loved one or relative.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• 50% off First News subscriptions for friends and family